DoctorWhy
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Found these items a few feet apart in the shoreline back yard lawn of a friend's house on coastal Maine. Once the lawn turf plug was cut, the underlying soil was organic and strewn with clams shells. Perhaps part of a Native American clam shell middens? There are many hundreds of years of documented Native American activity on and around this island.
The axe head was over a foot deep. It measures, at its widest dimensions: 9" x 4". There appears to have been a maker's mark stamped into the wrought iron (as indicated by orange arrows on the axe head image and the enlarged image of the mark). Haven't been able to make out any details of the mark. Any ideas if this is a "Trade Axe"? It is a bit larger than examples that I have been able to find on the web.
The button, found nearby was only an inch or two deep in the same type of soil.
The buckle fragment was found about 20 feet from the other two finds.
--Bert
The axe head was over a foot deep. It measures, at its widest dimensions: 9" x 4". There appears to have been a maker's mark stamped into the wrought iron (as indicated by orange arrows on the axe head image and the enlarged image of the mark). Haven't been able to make out any details of the mark. Any ideas if this is a "Trade Axe"? It is a bit larger than examples that I have been able to find on the web.
The button, found nearby was only an inch or two deep in the same type of soil.
The buckle fragment was found about 20 feet from the other two finds.
--Bert
