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A truss pin used for holding the rafters in place. It arrived at the museum with another truss pin from an old barn in Enstone, Oxfordshire.
This is a truss pin. Trusses are frameworks of rafters and struts used to support structures such as roofs and bridges. Truss pins such as this are used for holding the rafters in place. This truss pin was found in an old barn in Enstone, Oxfordshire.

truss pin: metal