GreyGhost
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I found this recently in southeastern Arizona less than a mile from the U.S. border not too far from Nogales.
It was sitting on the surface of the soil in a small field, it was not buried at all. The area is very hilly and filled with grass and oak trees and this small field looked like it could have been a nice pasture at one point.
The only other thing I found in the area probably about 75 yards away from this object was about 7 to 8 u-shaped nails. They did not look very old (fifty years maybe) and looked like the type you'd nail some fencing to a post with.
The object was heavily rusted and I soaked it in Evapo-rust for several days (that's probably where most of the pits came from). I did this because I didn't think it was very old and thought "what the heck, might as well get the rust off it". Since then I've been looking at pictures of tomahawks online and am now wondering if that's what it is. It appears to have been "hand forged" because the round indentations on both sides are not uniform with each other and the edges are not even either. Does not look like something that was pounded out by a factory in China anytime soon but then again it could just be very cheap steel that was only 50 or so years old and just rusted very rapidly. I have a feeling its some kind of tool a rancher used but its too small to be useful as an axe. Maybe its the sharpened end of a pick?
I don't think the natives in this area even used "tomahawks" like this but I could be wrong about that too.
Thanks
It was sitting on the surface of the soil in a small field, it was not buried at all. The area is very hilly and filled with grass and oak trees and this small field looked like it could have been a nice pasture at one point.
The only other thing I found in the area probably about 75 yards away from this object was about 7 to 8 u-shaped nails. They did not look very old (fifty years maybe) and looked like the type you'd nail some fencing to a post with.
The object was heavily rusted and I soaked it in Evapo-rust for several days (that's probably where most of the pits came from). I did this because I didn't think it was very old and thought "what the heck, might as well get the rust off it". Since then I've been looking at pictures of tomahawks online and am now wondering if that's what it is. It appears to have been "hand forged" because the round indentations on both sides are not uniform with each other and the edges are not even either. Does not look like something that was pounded out by a factory in China anytime soon but then again it could just be very cheap steel that was only 50 or so years old and just rusted very rapidly. I have a feeling its some kind of tool a rancher used but its too small to be useful as an axe. Maybe its the sharpened end of a pick?
I don't think the natives in this area even used "tomahawks" like this but I could be wrong about that too.
Thanks
