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On 2023-09-11 by InspectApedia Publisher (mod) - cleaning up a possibly-bronze metal artifact from Cancale, France Splits in a rusted or damaged nail shank illustrate the direction of iron fibres in the iron and can indicate the nail age. Across-shank = before 1830; parallel to shank = machine-made cut nail.

Although some are undoubtedly utilitarian, the widespread presence, in the Greek world as well as in the Roman Empire, of single nails in graves, especially cremation graves, suggests they were delib-erately buried with the grave-goods. A starting place is the Canadian Museum of History at historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/archeo/hnpc/npvol28e.html Thank you for the helpful photos of your antique nail. My estimate of the age of your nail is 1830 or a bit older, with an "earliest" date of 1815. NAIL ID & AGE: CUT NAILS - photos of types of cut nails and details about determining their age where we describe early nail-making machines in North America and include English and U.S. patents for such equipment.How else might hammer marks be made on old nails of any sort? During reclamation and re-use of these valuable fasteners. In our second illustration, (both adapted from Phillips 1993) note the rounded and narrowed shank just under the head as deformed when gripped in the machine vise to form the head (red arrow) and the irregular-shaped head (blue arrow) and also the rounded nail tips on both of these early machine-made nails. 1805 - present: nails made completely by machine Timber frame construction initially used hand hewn beams, later manually or mechanically sawn beams cut by a pit saw. Later timber frame beams were sawn in mills using circular saws.

Cut nails made after about 1850 are in the longitudinal rather than transverse orientation [of iron fibres or crystals - Ed.] , and have a folded head structure resulting from improved design of the nail machine header grips. Looks like a framing nail bent into a hook, either for use as a hanger or simply bent during withdrawal. It's about 6" long and seems to be made of wrought-iron instead of steel. I assumed it was a railroad spike but I cannot seem to find a way to date it. Any advise?As you'll read in the article above on determining the age of old iron spikes, nails, artifacts, giving details of the context in which the object was found is essential in making a reasonable guess at the object's purpose and age. On some occasions publications may do little more than note that nails were recovered durin g excavation. The irregular rounded head was made in a subsequent step by first clamping the nail shank so that the head could be compressed - hence the rounded shank with pinch marks on the upper part of the nail just under the nail head. 1810 - Present: Modern Machine Made Nails Note direction of iron fibres in nails and spikes If we exclude nails coated with a galvanized or other material, mo