The knife-edged broad axe was sharpened on both sides and did not have a swell over the eye. It was a versatile hewing tool, very large and heavy. This one is stamped I Platt in a rectangular die mark on the one side. Platt was probably the maker's name. The axe was found in Connecticut.
Modern version of an earlier form of axe frequently called a bull axe because of its use in a slaughter house for felling animals by a blow on the head with the stud.
