Hello histarchers.  I need some help finding a date range for a shingling or roofing hatchet.  I recently excavated a hatchet from the bottom of a mill's wheel pit in SE Pennsylvania.   The hatchet is 7 inches long with an octagonal straight poll.  The blade has a curved profile and a straight bit.   Eric Slone illustrates one but gives no date.   There is a similar hatchet from Maine dated c. 1850.   Does anyone have any source that dates hatchets and axe types?


Keith R. Doms

Newlin Grist Mill

Site Manager

219 S. Cheyney Rd.

Glen Mills, PA  19342

(610) 459-2359

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