Trenails

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Identifier

ABP-HBM-3.100

Title

Trenails

Date

1700

Description

4 Danish trenails. Asferg, Aarhus, Jutland Frame and Batten Pegs.

This collection includes an ‘oak nail’, carefully pared in order to be driven via a pilot hole through newly cut pine saplings used as thatching poles.
fair condition
one nail splitting, one broken and head remaining

Contributor

Dr Chris How

Source

Denmark

Type

Wood

Physical Dimensions

250 mm, 125 mm, 100 mm, 60 mm length

Collection

Citation

“Trenails,” Miles Lewis Heritage Building Materials Collection, accessed November 25, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/mlbh_collection/items/show/219.