civil war horseshoe nail?

[windrun]

Hello -

I went to my field, two miles south to Black Jack Battlefield, anyway, I got several nails - I heard a lot of beep sound from X-Terra 50 and I believe that a lot of nail are same inches deep. Many nails are within five feet circles. Sound like somebody stayed the camping site while someone fixed up the horseshoes for all horses before go to the civil war. Or may be I am wrong. Last few days ago, I found the old coin, one dime and year is 1876, almost same spot where I found the nails.

Richard

 

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[CRUSADER]

Unless the 1876 is in nearly uncirculated condition then it was lost some time after 1876 could be 20-50 years later or more??

Unless you get more evidence in that area, the nail could be any era before or after the CW.

Best to keep an open mind with every item you find, ID it first then make conclusions. As you know there are layers upon layers of history to each site. You have to unpick it based on the facts.

Sorry if this seems obivious, but I watch plenty of so called professionals do the same. Fit an item into their story.

Good luck IDing it.

 

[Kansas]

The battle at Black Jack was in 1856, and some think the starting of the Civil War. The Santa Fe Trail runs though the area and it is thought John Brown used the ruts as cover during the shoot out.
My club the Mid Western Artifact Society along with Dr. Doug Scott of Nebraska University and the US Park Service did a week long survey griding and detecting the area and the farm just to the Southwest.
Dr. Scott is the man that placed where everyone was at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, that you may have seen on the History Channel.
I am thinking the nails and coin were more than likely from the wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail.
I would be most interested to help you hunt that area if possible.
Please let me know.
~Kansas~

 

[Montana Jim]

I agree with Crusader... it's a shoe nail... but from when? It obviously could have come from before, after, or during any specific event there in that area. Even the coin (1876) could have been dropped long after that date... long after. Are other identifyable iron relics from THAT particular area surviving there THAT long? Truthfully... I am digging shoe nails that old here in Montana... maybe you are too.

That discovery channel deal was cool... seen it before... a few times.

 

[Ed-NH]

It looks like an oxen shoe nail. I find them from time to time and sometimes the oxen shoes still have the nails in them.

Ed-