May 12, 2023 · Nail & Spike Age, History, Uses Antique Nails: History & Photo Examples of Old Nails Help Determine Age of a Structure We give a chronology: the history of nails, types & methods of …

Jan 27, 2015 · You can still buy square nails at a good hardware store. Yes, and this is another reason I raised the topic. I certainly don't think any of the nails my son and I have found are modern - it would …

Dec 27, 2014 · Square nails were forged and may show the location of a homestead or building worth detecting. Settelars would often burn down or disassemble buildings if they were goings to abandon …

Aug 29, 2012 · Square nails were used in the eighteen hundreds and miners also used them to mark their claim by nailing then in a tree in a particular pattern. So many nails in a set design pattern and …

Jul 22, 2023 · Old nails in a previously unlooked at site on an old farm. If may have been site of old ice house. Sits on a ridge above a creek. One is bent at the end. Rectangular shape with apparently …

Dec 21, 2008 · Dating Ship Wreck Nails Does anyone know of a book that can use to help date some nails or spikes from ship wrecks? There appears to be a lot of different types (square, round …etc) …

Oct 9, 2011 · Apparently, the widespread "switch" from square-bodied wrought-iron nails to steel cylindrical ones seems to have occurred in the early 20th-century. My house was built in 1926, and …

Mar 16, 2015 · Hi everyone, I recently dug up an older looking horseshoe that I'm not sure how to date. I have reason to believe it's fairly old since it uses square nails, it looks different than recent ones I …

Sep 25, 2021 · My father has an old brass-appearing (though consensus seems to be that all of these are bronze) perfectly square ship nail through a small piece of whatever vessel it was attached to.

Feb 15, 2019 · So ive been hunting this site for a few weeks now and am pretty certain ive located an old homesite. It sits on Anastasia island in St Augustine Florida. Ive found alot of civil war buttons, …