Dear Ned,
Two years ago there was a dig in Michigan on Mackinaw Isl.  they have
analysed all of the nails found there and the data will soon be available
in Sheila Stewarts Masters thesis.  Her e-mail is [log in to unmask]
 Best of Luck.  Stacey
 
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> From: Ned Heite <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Nails
> Date: Saturday, September 27, 1997 3:48 PM
>
> 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