🔎 UNIDENTIFIED blacksmithed chain links - maybe

[thomis]

found these links yesterday in our newly acquired stretch of woods. Are they just severely rusted links of recent year or are they made by a blacksmith? If they are made by a smith they got the lengths impressively close as both are almost exactly 3" long, one about 3 1/16". Each link also has a slight bulging spot, this also makes me think it might be where the smith connected the ends? I'm very new at this and just getting started. Definitely found a smithed nail.

 

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[releventchair]

Congrats. Stuffs been buried awhile.
Links cleaned should show the budge better.
Olde forge welding could be smoothed after. And is more a flat result than rounded.

Be sure your nail is hand forged before declaring it as such.
Look at modern cut nails. As in horseshoe and concrete for a couple examples.

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[villagenut]

You would need to clean up the links and look for a forged weld versus a modern weld.....your nail is most likely a type B which is not a Smith made nail.