Can anyone nail this one for me?

                        For the last year or so, I have been detecting a beach that used to be used as a WWII RAF / USAF air to ground target site. If one has the time and patience to work through the many thousands of WWII spent projectiles
and shrapnel, there are some more interesting finds to be had. The oldest coin I found was a George III half penny and I have also found a good number of pre-decimal British coins.

                        During a number of my searches I have come across copper nails of various sizes. I have been told that the nails are copper ships nails. Is there any way of telling the age of nails???





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		Quote:			Posted by homefire
	You Realize there could be a pile of Unexploded Ordinances there?

                                Thank you for your quick reply to my post.

                                As far as I know, the air forces concerned did not do bombing or rocket attacks on the targets that were set up there. .303, .30, 50 cal armour piercing projectiles turn up in their thousands, and some 20mm canon. My greater concern is that my beach was land mined during WWII and demined in 1945 but the British Ministry of Defence are unable to confirm that all mines were accounted for when de-mining took place. Neither were they able to confirm that any mines were unaccounted for! 

                               One has to remember that a great number of British beaches were mined during WWII and we should always take the greatest of care when metal detecting beaches in the UK. There is also the problems of munitions washing ashore from some of the under sea dumps where thousands of tons of munitions were disposed of following WWII.

                               Whilst doing some research for my beach; I discovered that there has been over 120 civilian shipwrecks within five miles of my location. There is even a record of a Roman wreck being picked up on sonar. Roman ships past the area on a regular basis and the Vikings even settled close by. As I understand it............Viking boat builders also used copper nails and roves in ship building.

                               So, I wonder..............what age did my copper nails come from? Or maybe there is no way of knowing!   

                                             

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Thanks Homie,
                     looks like it's going to have to be the museum.

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