very rusty nail

[Kiwi1]

recently whilst beach combing on Blackpool beach I found a very strange rock when I started to break it apart this nail was in there I was just wondering if anybody would know when the nail was made etc although it is very rusty I believe it is iron as it has rusted a lot and is magnetic and rather heavy for its size its around 12cm thanks in advance

 

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[Tony in SC]

Looks like a railrooad spike but being found on a beach I would say it's from a pier or old ship?

 

[A2coins]

That would be cool if it was from a ship but I'm more with the RR spike

 

[Red-Coat]

Brighton has been served by a railway since 1841 but it doesn't run particularly near the beach. More likely from the concrete and timber groynes on the western side of Brighton beach I would have thought. They were originally constructed in the 1880s to protect the foreshore from wave erosion, but used as a coal delivery pier for a while and have had to be continually rebuilt and repaired since their original installation.

 

[Kiwi1]

Thank you for all the replies it was found in this rock it was found near the south pier at Blackpool but I thought too small for off the pier perhaps?

 

[Red-Coat]

This is a typical groyne nail as used in timber sea defence barriers. They're massive.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-s...usty-nail-in-a-weathered-groyne-78060013.html

 

[Peyton Manning]

Looks more like conglomerate than rock

 

[Red-Coat]

Thank you for all the replies it was found in this rock it was found near the south pier at Blackpool but I thought too small for off the pier perhaps?

I do apologise... I wasn't paying attention and misread Blackpool for Brighton. The Blackpool coast area however has an even worse history of beach erosion problems than Brighton and I would still think that's a groyne nail.

 

[Peyton Manning]

Groin nail! Ouch

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Groin nail! Ouch

I get one of these babies hammered home every time I get the evil-eye from the wife.

Dave