Would this help?
 
Jay D. Edwards and Tom Wells, Historic Louisiana Nails:  Aids to the
Dating of Old Buildings, Fred B. Kniffen Cultural Resources Laboratory
Monograph Series, No. 2 (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press,
1993?
 
Carolyn Breedlove
Ranger
Cane River Creole NHP
P.O. Box 536
Natchitoches, LA  71458
 
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Ned Heite wrote:
 
> Back 35 years ago (that long, really!) Fontana published an interesting
> study of the nails from Johnny Ward's Ranch (Fontana and Greenleaf 1962).
> This subject was expanded in an article that appeared in one of the two
> Conference on Historic Site Archeology proceedings that were published as
> issues of Florida Anthropologist.
>
> Since then, has anyone attempted to quantify nail usage on historic sites?
> As I recall, Fontana showed a house plan to several carpenters and asked
> them to specify the nails. He compared these numbers with the nails from
> the Ward Ranch site.
>
> In trying to interpret the Bloomsbury Site in Delaware, we have quantified
> the nails in hopes of interpreting architectural details, but the only
> similar tabulation we can find is Fontana's!
>
> Has anyone done a similar tabulation during the years since?
>
> Ned Heite
>