My daughter dug this metal item up in her back yard. Up until the 1920s, a railroad ran just feet away away from the spot. Perhaps a RR tool?
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It's a gate hinge pin.
Yep, still used on many types of gates to this day. Out in my wood shop I have a bin with about 10 of them in it.
Thank you, guys. Based on your I.D., I found a picture of one. I sent it to my daughter.
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John H posted:It's a gate hinge pin.
Also known as a pintle.
It fits into a gudgeon!
Jon 
Learned some new words. 
I can't wait to work them into a sentence at Home Depot or Lowes...and wait for the blank stares! 
West Marine knows those words. Many rudders hang from Pintles and Gudgeons much like a gate hinge pin and it's mating gudgeons. j
Tuscan Jim posted:I can't wait to work them into a sentence at Home Depot or Lowes...and wait for the blank stares!
I was thinking along those lines as well, just try out the new words.
Tuscan Jim posted:I can't wait to work them into a sentence at Home Depot or Lowes...and wait for the blank stares!
Reminds me of when I asked the employee at either Home Depot or Lowes if they had any Homasote. He didn't give me a blank stare, but he asked if it was like Creosote!!! 
...and perhaps some scale modelers or even some hi-railers among us creosote their Homosote!
Some manuals refer to the shaft that an aircraft landing gear pivots on as the pintle. j
The Pintle. Neddles, and The Santa Fe helped germudgon US of 'Merica right? 😲
I'm just hasping 
