Nailed

    I love finding old nails, particularly the hand wrought kind. Below is a picture of my favorite nails.  The white material on some of of them comes from plaster from our walls as I usually hang a relic with and ancient nail.
    The oldest nail in the attachment is probabaly the smallest one at the top.  That is a Roman hobnail probably lost from the footwear of a Roman soldier partaking in a major siege operation in 34BC.
    The big nail to the right is the classic "square" or "cut" nail that was used for many years to be replaced by the modern round nail. The big nail is the newest nail in the picture.
    I like the heavy thick nails. They came from an area where Roman, Celtic, medieval, and modern day relics were found.  They are old but how old I do not know. 
    The two nails to the direct left of the hobnail are from the 1840' or 50's found in the US.

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Dave, you've got some very impressive specimen there! As I'm most of the time rejecting iromn I am unfortunately missing many of those. I think I may want to change this in the future.

There are also old bronce nails to be found in Europe. And I have an old Roman hair pin that could easily be mistaken for a giant nail. I will have to post a picture of it.

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Dave, you are right. Out in the woods I will usually also dig for iron as thee is less junk. Also long iron pieces still tend to be complete out in the woods while e.g. an iron blade / sword woudn't survive for too long in a field.

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