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The museum said I can narrow down the date based on the type of nails used. After some rudimentary searching on the history of nails, I find myself utterly lost. Five pictures to follow. I would like to be able to know the rough age of this nail. Thank you. Reply: details of early machine made nails, rounded head & upper shank, rectangular lower shank When estimating the age, properties, use, and history of a metal fastener like a nail, spike, or screw, we look

Machová, Dita, Jan Baar, Zuzana Paschová, Petr Pařil, Jana Křenková, and Jozef Kúdela. "Color changes and accelerated ageing in oak wood treated with ammonia gas and iron nanoparticles." European Journal of Wood and Wood Products 77, no. 4 (2019): 705-716. Since 1888, steel nails are made in the nail factory Rivierre. Today, we can make almost any nail in this metal. Please may I ask if you can help identify this. I know it’s probably a long shot. I found it on remote farmland in the Brecon Beacons below the ground by about a foot. Thank you in advance for any assistance provided. Cut nails made in North America before the 1830s would not have been used for clinched nailing (ends would break off)At NAILS, AGE & HISTORY we point out that the history of metal nails dates from the third century A.D. Now if this lath scrap is, for example, from an old house I restored at 28 West St. in Wappingers Falls NY (known as "the bleachery") we know when that house was built and thus we can make a pretty good guess that original wood lath in the home dates from around the U.S. Civil War, perhaps 1865 to about 1880. Below, an example of modern round or wire nails, galvanized fasteners. These 4d 1 1/2" galvanized nails are designed for use with steel joist hangers.

How else might hammer marks be made on old nails of any sort? During reclamation and re-use of these valuable fasteners. Thanks for the nice comment and for not hanging out "silently". I was a nerd myself for a long time.I see some tapering just under the head. If that is from original fabrication and not an artifact of corrosion, then the nail may be hand wrought. Cutting from opposing sides means that the shear cut that produced the nail was made from opposing sides of an iron or steel blank slab. Italian scholars have recently re-opened an old debate about the func-tion of nails discovered in Greek and Roman cremation and inhuma-tion tombs.