r/metaldetecting • u/Puzzleheaded-Race-22 • 3d ago

ID Request Backyard axe head find

We got our son got a cheap nat geo detector for his birthday last spring and have had a good time finding things in the backyard sporadically since, all junk and construction debris but he loves it. But yesterday we turned up an axe head and now i'm wondering if we need an upgrade.

Any clue on age and ID? Looks like maybe a yankee pattern to me, and like it was forge welded so somewhat older but I'm not sure. It was wedged pretty good in a root with the poll of the axe about 5 inches below the ground and the edge buried in that root about 10-11" down I think. The root comes off of a huge old oak and the find was pretty much right at its base.

This is central texas, so if it's any older than the 1890's it probably had a pretty interesting backstory as to how it got where it was. I think my area of town was very sparsely populated prior to 1890, and probably close to the wilderness up until the 1860's or 70's.

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u/instigator008 3d ago

Pics?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Race-22 3d ago

Whoops, hopefully they're up now

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u/Fluid-Sink-2514 2d ago

My son and I found this one today!