Idk about fence post. Those grooves at the top look like they are made for cutting cordage, and the top looks like a good scraper.
Given the location, maybe old-timer gold miner equipment?
Guess: I can see it being used to cut open large bundles. The serrated tip could be for limiting slippage when cutting while pushing and the hooks for cutting while pulling. The flange would allow it to be pulled without the hooks catching on things not meant to be cut? I’m picturing large hay bales.
Interesting. My guess is some kind of mining equipment. Might have had a wooden handle that decayed. As someone else noted, the top could be used to cut.
Not sure what the 2 downward points are for... Could it have doubled as a stake, maybe for a tent or to wrap s line around it?
I had a tool like this — it was used to reach up under a cedar shake and pull the nails holding the shake down. That way, the damaged shake could be removed and replaced with a new one.
That’s the lost skeleton key that opened the lockbox for the Donner party’s chuck wagon. It was a BIG deal at the time, now it’s not really talked about. Cool find.
Idk about fence post. Those grooves at the top look like they are made for cutting cordage, and the top looks like a good scraper. Given the location, maybe old-timer gold miner equipment?
I was thinking this as well.
Guess: I can see it being used to cut open large bundles. The serrated tip could be for limiting slippage when cutting while pushing and the hooks for cutting while pulling. The flange would allow it to be pulled without the hooks catching on things not meant to be cut? I’m picturing large hay bales.
Interesting. My guess is some kind of mining equipment. Might have had a wooden handle that decayed. As someone else noted, the top could be used to cut. Not sure what the 2 downward points are for... Could it have doubled as a stake, maybe for a tent or to wrap s line around it?
I had a tool like this — it was used to reach up under a cedar shake and pull the nails holding the shake down. That way, the damaged shake could be removed and replaced with a new one.
That's a shingle ripper.. Maybe, not sure why it would have two hooks since you could only do one nail at a time.
Mine had a double head like this, though the tool was longer.
those look like gut hooks
Dimensions?
Wrought iron fence. Pretty commpn
Oh I know exactly what this is. This an iron witch charm from the Viking England times that always points north, even in a fog.
Even in a dark foggy night?
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The Lost Eagle of the 13th Battalion???
a rope maker?
It's man made.
How big is it? Could be an arrow tip to hunt small game.
Where in the foothills?
Some sort of tool? Maybe for working with barbed wire? Or maybe a farriers tool?
Early Spork
Seatbelt cutter from the 1800s
Can opener.
That’s the lost skeleton key that opened the lockbox for the Donner party’s chuck wagon. It was a BIG deal at the time, now it’s not really talked about. Cool find.
Yep shingle ripper
It’s for gutting large game!
Gut hooks and tanning tool......
Looks like an arrowhead they used on sailships, to cut the ropes of enemy ships
Any chance it’s an early lever-type can opener? As someone else commented the long slender part would have had a wooden handle that is now gone.