Anyone help identify a rusty old & abused axe head?

[Darkflight]

Howdy!
Just diggin into a old dump site. I'm in an area where most of the coins were scooped long ago. But they didn't bother with most of the iron stuff. Hoping to find more coins / good stuff I'm taking it out best as I can.
Found an old stove lid dating to 1890's & a mason jar lid that still had the milk glass seal. But nothing burried with it dagnabit.

But I came across this "Axe". I think its an axe & it has been treated with gusto in service-that is for sure!. But the hole/attachment is unlike anything I've seen.Anyone know what the heck it really is?.

Thanks!

 

[srf2112]

That looks like a splitting wedge of some sort to me. The hole in the center may have been drilled through it for hanging up. My best guesses.
HH
Scott

 

[1859large]

Must be very soft to have been that beaten up. Somebody may have heated it up in a fire and wrecked the hardness. Stuck it in a log and threw it in the fire?

HH

1859

 

[Doc.]

looks like one of the old homemade wedges that were used when felling or blocking off a log with a crosscut saw . i used to have several made from old hoof rasps . they worked darn good . you don't want to get that saw stuck !