This ones got me wondering

[Joe hunter]

It’s iron ,and the markings say vmc.thanks for any help.

 

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Oil Can?

 

[Joe hunter]

It’s solid iron.one piece

 

[Bruce R]

Looks like one of those things they use to put fillings into cupcakes.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Looks like a dart head,So with that thought, maybe it is a vintage yard dart head.

 

[A2coins]

Looks like the needle my dentist had, The movie Jaws hooper Richard Dryfys or how ever you spell it had on the end of his spear in the cage when he went in the water what a nut bag he tried to stick it in the shark and it fell

 

[andygold]

Totally guessing here!!!!

It's probably not really what I'm describing...but... there is a company named VMC that makes fishing tackle. They have a lure called a Darter Head that looks a bit similar, but I somewhat wonder if they ever made one of heavy ferrous metal. Does it look like it might have had a loop on the side of the fat, round piece, where fishing line could have been attached?

Again, I really can't fathom that they made an iron lure, but you never know.

It also reminds me of the spike on one of those old-style red, road flares.

 

[Joe hunter]

No ,i it’s more hammerish than lure.

 

[RobMc]

Some sort of machining bit?

 

[nagant]

garbage spike?

 

[tamrock]

garbage spike?

Agree

 

[Joe hunter]

It look something like a garbage spike .but a 10oz garbage spike in the woods,on a hill with obvious age and stamped with a makers mark does not seem likely to me.It does resemble a hammer head but I can’t find one like it.
To be honest I found it looking for cannon parts as I’ve found fragments of what I believe to be an exploded cannon.I was hoping it was cannon related ,like for spiking a cannon or perhaps even a type of shot but I can find nothing related that looks quite the same.

 

[yaxthri]

Loved the "in-a-pickle" lighter for size comparison hahaha

 

[nagant]

some kind of surveyor's rod end?

 

[Joe hunter]

some kind of surveyor's rod end?

You may be on to something there is one of those copper coastal surveyors markers maybe 100 ft away .ill research after work.