Big Iron Spike?

[HeavyMetalDigger]

A couple of weeks ago in a park I found this thin triangular Iron spike about 20 feet
from the waters edge of a creek.
It's down the road from a old colonial homestead from 1785.
It was nearly 10 to 12 inches down.
as you can tell from the pic it definitely has some kind of a build up encasing this thing.
I'm not sure what it's for, possibly log splitting ???

 

[Jim West Pa]

n/t

 

[edjcox]

Some axe heads look like this how thick is it..

 

[HeavyMetalDigger]

@edjcox It might be pretty thin for an Axe, but it's a good guess.(and that would be very cool if it was an Axe)
To me it looks like about a little over an 1/8Th of an inch thick.
I know somewhere I saw a old pic where something like these were used
to split logs with.
I guess they would use many along the middle of a long piece of timber
and drive them deeper & deeper until the log just eventually split in half.
Not sure of the dating of this type of piece but like I wrote in the original
post, it was near an old colonial homestead
I will look online to see if I can find that pic
And see if it matches up with this thing
Perhaps there's somebody who knows
Something about logging could know either way.
Thanks again