The first nails were entirely hand forged from a piece of wrought-iron bar into a tapered point about 6″ (150 mm) long, with a head hand-formed by hammering flat a piece of untapered original stock.

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Nails were made by forging them individually, by cutting them from a sheet of metal or by drawing them through special dies. Forged nails (1780 to 1835) were individually hand-shaped by blacksmiths.

From before biblical times, through the 1700s, nails were hand wrought, forged one at a time. The time consuming process made nails a valuable commodity—so much so that nails were sometimes used ...

thus imitating the operation of forging by hand. There is also a.certain arrangement of the anvil relatively to the lateral motion af the nail roads for the purpose of drawing the nails from head ...

the most notable being the nails that were said to have been used in the crucifixion. The Romans hand-forged nails, left several tonnes in England and they have been found in excavations and ...