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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Darkwing Manor, post: 2325580, member: 738&quot;]The general consensus at Hunter Research is that it&#039;s probably a spike from the end of a cheval-de-frise. It could very well date from the American Revolution, although it&#039;s also possible that it could be as late as the Civil War.&nbsp; I guess the historical society doesn&#039;t have much data on why they have it&nbsp; or where it came from or they wouldn&#039;t be asking ... but it is from that part of northern New Jersey where there were many iron works.&nbsp; So it may have been made nearby but never deployed (just a hunch).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an example of one pulled out of the Delaware:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://twipa.blogspot.com/2013/06/preservation-of-cheval-de-frise-from.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://twipa.blogspot.com/2013/06/preservation-of-cheval-de-frise-from.html" rel="nofollow">http://twipa.blogspot.com/2013/06/preservation-of-cheval-de-frise-from.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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