✅ SOLVED Unknown Object

[schatzle]

I was in this forum group about ten years ago, and now I'm back.
My name is Andrew Schatzle, i live in Pass Christian, MS

My son and I found this object in our back yard. we live a block from the Gulf of Mexico in the Hurricane Katrina zone.
This object is heavy and I believe is iron. There is a slight divot on each side about the size of a golf ball.

Any help identifying it would be appreciated.

 

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[Al D]

You may have an anchor fluke, the rest must have rusted away, cool find

 

[firemanphob]

Looks like a lug from a steel wheeled tractor wheel. Could that divot be a hole that is full of rust and could there also be a hole in the bottom going to the (divot hole)?
and even if it's not, welcome from Indiana

 

[schatzle]

There isn't a hole in the bottom.
Also, i just looked at pics online of old steel wheeled tractors. Most wheel spikes were hollow.

 

[Raider19962]

At first it looked like an old iron.

 

[vhs07]

Slug from an old iron. They came in different sizes.

 

[GaRebel1861]

I think that it’s a Flatiron as well.

 

[civil_war22]

Same here on the iron. Great grandma used to have one on the fireplace, and my other grandma still has one on hers

 

[firemanphob]

I guess they were made from different materials but I dug one at my great grandmothers that hade probably been in the ground for 100+ years and it was really smooth, not deeply corroded and why would it have divots on the ironing surface?

 

[vhs07]

I guess they were made from different materials but I dug one at my great grandmothers that hade probably been in the ground for 100+ years and it was really smooth, not deeply corroded and why would it have divots on the ironing surface?

It's not an Iron, it's a slug that would of been heated in a fire and inserted into the irons like the ones I posted above.

 

[se3388]

Hello from SEMO and welcome, cool find. I have an Aunt that lives in Gulfport.

 

[firemanphob]

yeah, that makes more sense.