✅ SOLVED Help with CW Spike?

[Bunker]

Hi All,
Found this spike at a CW site near Atlanta. There was a supply depot and camp located on the site with a RR passing in front of it. Was wondering what it would have been used for. Seems a bit small to be a RR track spike. I have no idea.
Thanks for your help in advance,
Bunker

 

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[creskol]

That looks like it is wider than it is thick, so technically it would be a nail. Nail lengths ranged from 1 inch, commonly called a 2d nail on the penny scale, all the way up to an 80d nail which was 8 inches long. Yours looks to be about 7 inches, so it would fall in the category of 70d nail. It was probably use for adjoining heavy timbers. Was there a camp site with huts close by?

 

[Bunker]

Thanks Creskol! Always a good day when you learn something new. There was a Union Battery on the site. Not sure about the structures. I will have to do a little research on that. A friend of mine built his house on the site of the Battery.
Much appreciated,
Bunker

 

[creskol]

Thanks Creskol! Always a good day when you learn something new. There was a Union Battery on the site. Not sure about the structures. I will have to do a little research on that. A friend of mine built his house on the site of the Battery.
Much appreciated,
Bunker

What a cool place for a house .. Hope you find some more goodies there.

With regards to old nails, I once did a you tube video on them just for fun: