Ship spike found?

[surfhunter]

Found my personal record of Grey matter today and this 5-6” bronze spike. Not sure what decade it came from. Doesn’t seemed forged looks like it was cast. Super cool find anyway. Let me know what you all think.

 

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[river roamer]

Interesting find

 

[surfhunter]

I went back today and found a second spike. Same material it’s about 1 1/2” shorter though. There also alot of old copper flashing in small pieces all over. Makes it a little annoying. I’ll post a pic of the new spike soon

 

[garren]

Good find! Take this with a grain of salt because I'm no expert on shipwrecks and the opinion I put forth is from someone else. However, with that disclaimer out of the way: I found a spike, similar to yours, from sand dredged offshore in the gulf. A couple of years after I dug it we had a well known treasure boat captain from the Treasure Coast come speak at our Texas Treasure Expo. I took the spike and showed it to him and he said it was definitely shipwreck and guestimated it was from the very early 1800's. I trusted his opinion enough to put it in my shipwreck artifact case.

 

[villagenut]

Looks like a good old ship spike to me....check out that flashing, there maybe some remaining bronze or brass tacks in the pieces.....really small ones

 

[surfhunter]

Second smaller spike

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Antique tent stakes

 

[sirwilliam]

Good find! Take this with a grain of salt because I'm no expert on shipwrecks and the opinion I put forth is from someone else. However, with that disclaimer out of the way: I found a spike, similar to yours, from sand dredged offshore in the gulf. A couple of years after I dug it we had a well known treasure boat captain from the Treasure Coast come speak at our Texas Treasure Expo. I took the spike and showed it to him and he said it was definitely shipwreck and guestimated it was from the very early 1800's. I trusted his opinion enough to put it in my shipwreck artifact case.

Show me the picture of the spike and i'll try to attach one here that we found in the southern bahamas on the first ship that she could not of a gated the earth using a steam engine and paddle wheel. Sank in 1861

 

[garren]

Show me the picture of the spike and i'll try to attach one here that we found in the southern bahamas on the first ship that she could not of a gated the earth using a steam engine and paddle wheel. Sank in 1861