Hello everyone,

I hope you won't mind with some artifact ID help. My colleague found this object last summer - http://imgur.com/a/ozhc2

It's iron and has a checkered pattern on the face of one sides (you can really see it clearly in the X-ray) and it's solid on the other. The tangs are also solid and flare a bit toward the checkered side of the object which might be their original orientation.

It was excavated from an Inuit winter sod house in central Labrador by a team of Memorial University of Newfoundland archaeologists. It appears the house was occupied during the second half of the eighteenth century, but the site was likely occupied into the early nineteenth century (ca. 1820). Most of the European goods the Inuit were getting were from French and English traders.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.