ships copper nails

[unclemac]

I know I should post these in another place but I seem to have better luck with you guys. I find these on the beach obviously, at a site where I also have found many artifacts. Now I know they are nautical but want to know more. I have seen the larger one beaten into knives before and am very aware of copper trade with ships nails to coastal peoples. What does anyone here know about the subject, look at that smaller one...why is the point flattened out. And how about that rivet looking one with two heads? I have a few of those.

Anyone?

 

[GatorBoy]

The last one looks like a ship spike.
Probably bronze.. 80% copper 20% tin.. the others are what look to be square nails..that type were made at the beginning of mass production of nails around the mid 1800,s . The bronze spike could be older as they are found fairly often here on 1700's Spanish shipwreck sites.

 

[CajunPointHunter]

Dang gator is there anything u don't know something about, and I thought I was the cornucopia of mostly knowledge lol

 

[GatorBoy]

Haha..alot of overlapping history here in coastal Florida.
It has been alot to process...but real fun!

 

[unclemac]

how about that flat end and the double head... explanations?

 

[CajunPointHunter]

Your on the east cost Gator? If so we need to hook up and find the Spanish Armada that had just left cuba and sank during that hurricane!!!

 

[GatorBoy]

how about that flat end and the double head... explanations?

I don't have an exact explanation for those other than there are hundreds of utilitarian possibilities..sorry.

 

[GatorBoy]

Your on the east cost Gator? If so we need to hook up and find the Spanish Armada that had just left cuba and sank during that hurricane!!!

Yes.. I'm right in the heart of the section of coastline that the 1715 Spanish Fleet your speaking of sank.
I have found silver Cobb's from that very fleet..among other artifacts from the hundreds of shipwrecks off this coastline.
Even the Atocha "1622"