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	Pegs - found at a Boer war site « on: June 07, 2010, 01:08:36 pm »

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These peg things were found at a Boer war site.... They are puzzling me as to what they could be. Any ideas will be appreciated very much.

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	Re: Pegs - found at a Boer war site « Reply #1 on: June 07, 2010, 02:21:38 pm »

May be tent pegs, but they are quite short.
More likely designed to be driven into wooden poles or trees to secure wires.

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	Re: Pegs - found at a Boer war site « Reply #2 on: June 07, 2010, 02:32:33 pm »

I agree with Spooky. Pegs to secure wires or ropes to build paddocks for horses or cattle. Similar, but of course more modern, are still used at horse paddocks.

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	Re: Pegs - found at a Boer war site « Reply #3 on: June 07, 2010, 02:41:42 pm »

Thanks guys,

That could be it, the pegs have a christmas tree effect on the shafts to stop the pegs being pulled out too easy.
Amazing what these troops carried around with them No no!

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	Re: Pegs - found at a Boer war site « Reply #4 on: June 07, 2010, 02:55:43 pm »

Better to carry some pegs than spending hours to find your horses again Grin

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	Re: Pegs - found at a Boer war site « Reply #5 on: June 07, 2010, 08:56:31 pm »

I think these were designed with a "permanent" use in mind.

I remember using similar hooks to hold fence wire on corral poles as a kid.
You hammered them over the wire and into the fence pole, til they pinched it against the pole.

These may be for that, or some type of support.

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	Re: Pegs - found at a Boer war site « Reply #6 on: June 08, 2010, 09:19:43 am »

Thanks guys for the replies, I am going to also try and get another chap to find out for us from the same museum that I had tried to ask. Maybe he will have better luck than I did Fight

I like the wire holding idea, although I must admit these are expensive nails for holding wire, when horseshoe nails will do the same thing Wink

But they are definitely for holding something down.

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