🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Old nails?

FloraZahn

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Nails can be useful in roughly dating a site. Rectangular shanks put them in a certain era. Colonial era shanks are typically square. Modern shanks typically round.

There’s a lot more to it but I don’t know the rest offhand.

 

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Definitely older nails, this little link provides the best info on the subject I've found, there's some nuances to dating nails, shape and direction of splitting or cracking are primary markers....

 

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Neither appears to be a nail for wood. Note the spade point on one and the lack of a head on the other. The one with the spade point has a head that has been beaten causing it to split and mis-shape. A rosehead nail, which this one looks like, normally has a neat, symmetrical head with 3 or 4 indentations in its top where the person forming the head on a hole in an anvil hit the nail head to spread it out. The one with the head seems too long for a horseshoe nail. I'd guess they are both special purpose ones made by a blacksmith. They suggest to me an old site.
 

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Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows what kind of nail, spike, or whatever it is used for? It is 1/4 x 1/4 x 4. I removed all the rust looking for something to identify by. Thanks for any help.
 

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