Tomahawk / axe head found this morning.

[Th3rty7]

I posted this in the todays finds earlier this morning I guess it's alright to repost here. I found this axe head this morning while working on a drainage ditch. It was laying in an old pile of scrap metal under a spring house in southern West Virginia on a friends farm. They are rerouting the water line to a cow pond. Does anyone know anything about this style of axe? Recorded history of the farm goes back to the early 1700s. Would you clean it up or soak it in something or leave it as it is? It's got some kind of corrosion / rusting going on. I volunteered to help out because I've found some native american artifacts on the farm,( I also found 2 arrowheads) but I sure didn't expect to find this, It made my day. Any comments / opinions are appreciated, have a good one.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,267916.0.html

 

[BobbyDawg]

I have one almost exactly like it. I bought it new about 20 or 25 years ago from smoky mountain knife works.
It is a throwing hatchet.

 

[BobbyDawg]

I have one almost just like it. I bought it new from smoky mountain knife works about 20 years ago. It is a throwing hatchet.

 

[gunsil]

Hey Bobby, that post was five years old!! But you are correct and all those that yelled banner showed their ignorance of the subject. I had one too, although in the 1960s, I think they used to sell them in magazine ads before SMKW was around.

 

[Tnmountains]

I believe this was solved in the what is it section several years ago. This thread is pretty old. Welcome to the site BobbyDawg

 

[GatorBoy]

Its not fair you guys find all the pretty stuff and I find gnarly things like this

 

[rock]

Gnarly but has plenty of beauty in the last pic. Nice find GatorBoy.

 

[painterx7]

That is a totally awesome find !!!!!! NOTWORTY !!!!

 

[rock]

Gnarly but has plenty of beauty in the last pic. Nice find GatorBoy.

Does it still have the wood in the hole?

 

[GatorBoy]

It has solidified sandstone like crust that replaced the wood.. if I were to pour a resin inside the sandstone shell it would make a perfect mold of that portion of the handle.

 

[rock]

You should that would be neat looking.

 

[GatorBoy]

It's been done many times with shipwreck artifacts.. But rock I would have to break open what's there now in order to do that I'm not going to do that

 

[rock]

No I wouldnt do it either. Its nice just the way it sits.