Here go. Poll is 3 3/8", which is wider than any of my Rockaways but about the same as a 4lb KP Jersey. It looks 19th century or earlier to my eye, with that eye and the forge marks.
Wow,what a cool creature!

Love the way it was put together,out of whatever was available,seemingly...Welds look sloppy but fairly competent;looks like the tool got quite worn in use...what more can one ask of a weld?...
It has an appearance of being forged in a smallish,short-handed forge;it's possible that it's quite old,too...(way older than 19th c.).
Welds of this rough of an appearance can be caused by lack of hands,or poor quality of coal,or ditto of iron itself.
Severe contamination by S or P would make it Very difficult to work on this scale/to this complexity.
And that too may be pointing to an earlier age,less transportation possibilities,less access to cleaner,more standardised material...
Nor do we need to limit the scope of possibilities to this continent,the shape is quite age-/state-less...
It kinda/sorta reminds me of abroad-axe that i checked out in the UAF museum in Fairbanks that was forged in Barrow(now Utquiagvik

,AK,by a Scandinavian smith in late 18oo's...same blunt-ish wedginess to it..).
Thanks,Fmont,for rescuing such classy old tool,and showing it to all of us here,wonderful!
