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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 1445273, member: 10944&quot;]Hoping someone may be able to help date these screws for me. It looks like you would have stuck a little rod in the side of the screw and turned it from there to tighten it down. Not sure when threaded screws started being used? Dug it out of a field last night. The property is adjacent to a road that saw use pre revolutionary war. It’s full of square nails so I assume there was either a home or barn there at some point. There was a great old stone foundation barn across the street in another field that blew over in a hurricane when I was a kid. Last night was the second time I metal detected in that field and I pulled out the second of two large copper coins last night. Unfortunately last nights was even more roached that the first. Not one legible anything anywhere. The first one I could make out two letters somewhere at least. This one has nothing left. It would have been really neat to get a date on one of them or enough to go on to figure it out. Was definitely hoping for colonial copper but I have a feeling they are probably English from a bit later down the line. It will be interesting to see when these screws date to. I assume 1800’s. Found a bunch of pieces of horse or ox shoes last night too. Those are pretty easy to date usually so I’ll look them up too. Last nights pieces are pretty beat up though so maybe not as easy as I’m hoping. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also a metal ring, any idea what used for? Furniture drawer/door pull? [ATTACH=full]224566[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]224567[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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