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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3292907, member: 82322&quot;]A citation for the nail hoard was preserved by the Internet Archive at</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141107000457/http://www.romanscotland.org.uk/pages/narratives/nailhoard.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141107000457/http://www.romanscotland.org.uk/pages/narratives/nailhoard.asp" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20141107000457/http://www.romanscotland.org.uk/pages/narratives/nailhoard.asp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The owners of romanscotland.org.uk let their site lapse.&nbsp; The archived article has no byline.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is an entire chapter on the hoard in David Sim’s The Roman Iron Industry in Britain <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0752468650" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0752468650" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/dp/0752468650</a> but the search tool does not mention the steel works so it likely doesn’t include the story from the web site.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found a 2011 article by Jonathan Geddes, <a href="https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/steel-boost-for-apprentices-2564295" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/steel-boost-for-apprentices-2564295" rel="nofollow">https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/steel-boost-for-apprentices-2564295</a> , suggesting that the Dalzell company is Tata Steel and that an article in <i>The Rutherglen Reformer </i>claimed “… the company intended to find a suitable home for Roman nails that had been in their possession, with the proceeds going to charity.”&nbsp; The <i>Reformer</i> newspaper was bought by a chain and no longer has a web site.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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