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An examination of nails and fasteners and other building hardware is a complimentary effort useful in determining the age of a building and its components. I believe this is an 1800s machine cut nail that has been hand split. Wondering if this is in fact a nail and why it might have been split like this? It was found metal detecting right next to a an 1830-1860s cellar hole in the mountains of Vermont. Thank you so much! This is a fantastic resource. The denomination of nail sizes based on the price per 100 nails (e.g. ten penny nails or 10d nails) dates from the 1400s.

InspectApedia-911, awesome stuff. And thank you again. With what you say in your reply I have found very helpful. I will try to clean it up to see what more it reveals. So so helpful. Thank you again for taking the time and showing an interest. Galvanized steel nails are mainly used in the building or restoration of old wooden boats (CARVELLE forged nail). The galvanization strengthen the nails and make them very hard to pull off. When our friend, Paul Galow, worked as an assistant to his uncle who built homes in Pennsylvania in the 1930's and 40's, his job was to salvage nails and hammer each bent one straight. Nails cost more than his labor. Above are nails used to secure accordion lath - a plaster base found in a rural U.S. post-and-beam home in Wyoming County, New York.Sprigs were used where later brads (small round-headed nails) but would not have been used where the application relied on the head of a nail to hold something in place. Some texts use "sprig nail" and "brad" interchangeably. In my OPINION a brad has a head while a true sprig probably does not. It ain't just bent nails & unicorns. But bent nails and tool marks on wood can tell us a lot about how buildings were and are put together, and what works, and what lasts, and what doesn't. I have what I believe is an old wooden tool box that the lid was attached by a side dowel (missing and lid is now detached) and nailed together by this same kind of nail. This is only by seeing the nail head in some places on the corners

Tomalin, Victoria, Veerasamy Selvakumar, Madhavan V. Nair, and Pandanpara Kunjappy Gopi. "The Thaikkal‐Kadakkarappally boat: An archaeological example of medieval shipbuilding in the western Indian Ocean." International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 33, no. 2 (2004): 253-263. Bleud steel nails are also used in the building or restoration of old houses (MARINIER forged nail). I agree that the items in your second photo look like nails, and look rather different than those in the first photo. Magnetic = iron. If it wasn't detected by some equipment that may be due to a small total mass and a lot of rusted content. at NAILS & HARDWARE, AGE RESEARCH Example of Using Contextual Information to Guess the Age of an Old Iron Spike - Hudson River

A Tacky Little History of Iron Nails

In essence, as you’ll read above, when estimating the age, properties, use, and history of a metal fastener like a nail, spike, or screw, we look

Easy questions help form a guess at the plausible age of various types of antique & modern Nails, including wood treenails, hand-wrought nails, cut nails, wire nails. Sprig Nails or sprigs, generally from about 1/2" up to 2" in length, were used in trim, flooring, furniture, and in thin smaller dimensions in window or mirror glazing to hold the glass or mirror in place. Among many other uses over the ages, other common uses were scuba diving weights and boat ballast, and of course, bullets. Cut nails made in North America before the 1830s would not have been used for clinched nailing (ends would break off)Nail shank: regular rectangle in cross-section, iron grains run across the nail shank (horizontal in some texts), so attempts to bend over or clinch the tip will break off the nail. Photos below: large iron spike found near Elmira, Ontario by Vern M shows laminar splitting along the length of the nail shank, giving an earliest date that some sources put at 1830.

Sarah, I agree that looks hand-wrought; take a look at the other nail-age guess suggestions in the article above. and at ESOPUS MEADOWS LIGHTHOUSE ISLAND SPIKE - using historical context of surroundings to guess the purpose and age of iron nails artifacts. The Esopus Meadows lighthouse was funded in 1831, but construction was not completed until 1838. As the piled stones where this spike was found and photographed periodically catch a beam or log that floats down the Hudson River, one can guess that the beam that brought this spike landed some time after 1838 - setting the earliest possible date for the landing but not, of course the earliest possible date for the beam and spike themselves.

Found in Lake Helen, fl. Not to far from an 1880 Indian head penny and an 1899 barber dime so yes I believe it is a period piece without a doubt. I just thought it may have been older than that era. INVERNESS CANAL IRON TOOLS & SPIKES - discussion of iron artifacts found in the Inverness Canal, northern Scotland. More often you'll see the term "clinched nails" to describe nails whose tips were bent over. Earlier nails whose iron grains ran across the length of the shaft couldn't be clinched: they'd break off. while cut nail shanks that taper at a uniform rate from under the head to the nail tip ar generally dated as 1830 or later (in North America) or by some sources, 1810 or later. (Visser, U. Vt.)