Anyone know what this it?

I found a pile of these T shaped nails in an abandoned boat house and wondered what they are. I don't think they're boat related... or are they?



The teaspoon is for scale.

 

Hey @ColinG
You forgot to show us a picture .....

 

I think he dropped them in the water....

 

I'd like to say he nailed it - except he didn't...

 

Now how the blazes did I miss out the photo!?!?

 

Ah, it is there now. That is all that matters. I've not a clue what the nails are for!!!!

 

The one on the right is used for stirring your tea....

 

@ColinG .. are they Copper or Steel/Iron?

 

@ColinG
Shingles ........ nails for shingles or slates on a roof?

 

They're made of steel or iron and are galvanized.

 

The nails are to fasten one thing to another thing.

 

..In a word..Yes!

Unlikely that they are for boat-building...i think Pete may be 'warmer'.

I have to admit that i haven't seen the like before..unusual?

 

I'd be guessing they're to hold some thin sheeting to something - polythene sheet inside a cavity wall possibly...

 

Hmmmm... they could be for boat building.
Clench nails.
Also called clinch nails.

 

I just looked up clinch and clench nails and they don't look the same. I was wondering if they were for fastening tiles?

 

Is there a possibility it's not a nail at all?

 

Maybe not but it's pointed at the sharp end if you understand what I mean.

 

I passed it by an old builder friend. Answer,’I haven’t a clue lad’.

 

I'm glad you 'pointed' that out, Colin - I just hadn't noticed.

How the heck have I been managing to get nails in the right way round for all my life? - on balance of probablity, you'd have thought 50% of them would have gone in the wrong way round...

 

Some kind of T-peg for pitching a tent, tying down a canvas or something? No idea.

 

For Barbie and Ken, perhaps...

...unless you have REALLY BIG spoons over there!

 

I’m still staying with roof single, or roof slate nails or even, as David has suggested, a fixing for some type of sheet, tar paper or felt perhaps.
This nail, or pin, looks to have been specially made, not machine mass produced, and further it looks to be what one could expect from perhaps late 1800s to early 1900s.
Cheers
Pete