WHAT COULD THIS BE?

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Found it near an old store and home that had burned 30 years ago. I thought it was an old meat cleaver but it is very heavy and thick metal. Feels like cast iron. One edge is beveled and something is stamped in it like a name or number I cannot make out. The handle area is odd not sure how one would be attached.

 

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Proportionally, the "handle" is too short to be a handle, and its design suggests it was slipped into something rather than hand held. My thought is that it is a tooth of some sort used in some kind of power equipment like an old steam shovel, etc. Interesting piece.

 

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Proportionally, the "handle" is too short to be a handle, and its design suggests it was slipped into something rather than hand held. My thought is that it is a tooth of some sort used in some kind of power equipment like an old steam shovel, etc. Interesting piece.

Good thought. The area near where it was found is a farming community so maybe it was attached to a plow type device, digger or row machine.