How old is this broken hinge? Id age?

[bartshop62]

I found this hinge metal detecting. How did it get broken Like that? and how did it get broken in the hole area?
Is it hand forged? found it not too far away from home built in 1809 1810 circa. oldest surving home in town. It is thought it was built by one of the earlist settlers of the county. Do u think this hinge belonged to him? Reproduction? New or old? There was a barn nearby. they do civil war reeactment but in the area there was civil war activity. Could it be reeactment related? Civil war soldiers related? Or 1809 1810 circa house related? Or to the barn thats there related?

 

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[RTR]

Holes look to be round so I would guess its not to old,(Can't put a square nail in a round hole)

 

[crashbandicoot]

Holes look to be round so I would guess its not to old,(Can't put a square nail in a round hole)

You don,t know some of the so called carpenters I do.They subscribe to the bigger hammer theory!

 

[DizzyDigger]

I found this hinge metal detecting. How did it get broken Like that?

Bart, I mean no disrespect, but perhaps you might consider your questions
a bit more before posting them up.

If you stop and think about it, unless they were there, how could anyone
possibly know how the hinge was broken? If someone did give
you a guess, it would be a WAG, at best.

and how did it get broken in the hole area?

The counterbored hole at the tip has the least amount of metal around it,
and that *might* have contributed to it breaking there. That's a guess, at best.
Otherwise, see above.

Is it hand forged? found it not too far away from home built in 1809 1810 circa. oldest surviving home in town. It is thought it was built by one of the earliest settlers of the county. Do u think this hinge belonged to him?

Now, unless it had a name on it, again I ask..how the heck could
anyone even have a clue about who's hinge it was..

Reproduction? New or old? There was a barn nearby. they do civil war reenactment but in the area there was civil war activity. Could it be reenactment related? Civil war soldiers related? Or 1809 1810 circa house related? Or to the barn that's there related?

It's certainly not from the early 1800's, if that's what you're asking.
As for the other questions, unless you can find some marking on the
hinge that ties it to something else, then who could know?

It's not that those same questions don't run through every TH'er's
head when they find an object like that, but it's the fact that they
are pretty much un-answerable. We all ask ourselves "What If?",
but without some provenance or physical proof, the question remains
a "What If".

Sometimes a dug up hinge is just that and nothing more...just a rusty
hinge to toss on the scrap pile.

 

[villagenut]

About every hinge I dig is bent up in some manner. If it is hand forged, do electrolysis on it especially if it is a historic house site I am on. To tell if it is hand forged, look for a grain in the surface where it is rusted most. Yours does not look forged nor that terribly old. But it is a real hinge that once kept a door or gate closed and near its end of usefulness, it was probably wrestled from the wood and bent up in the process.

 

[Mud Hut]

That is such a rare piece of history that the whole world "hinges" on its existence.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Holes look to be round so I would guess its not to old,(Can't put a square nail in a round hole)

Screws work better to secure a hinge than nails of any shape.