Can you date this steel?

[stevie888]

It's simple to test if its iron or steel: sgick a grinder on it and look at the sparks (check on utube first)

As others have said could have come from anywhere quite possibly overseas.

 

[endecotp]

Oops, corrected. 1879.

 

[endecotp]

It's simple to test if its iron or steel: sgick a grinder on it and look at the sparks (check on utube first)

Thanks, that’s interesting. Sadly I don’t have an angle grinder; I’ll ask around.

 

[Justin Passing]

Thanks, that’s interesting

N.B. Cast iron has loads of carbon in it - lots of sparks.
Wrought iron doesn't have (much at all) carbon in it.
Carbon steel has a small amount of carbon. Confusing.

You coud try asking the folk at Avoncraft Museum of Buildings.

 

[cdbe]

I'm pretty sure @tony1851 specced something very similar for my extension last week!

 

[Bear2Biker]

Are you near an old railway ? I lived in a 1700's cottage modified heavily in the 1900's - used the local (then closed) coal railway rails for support beams for all the extensions they added.

 

[endecotp]

No, it doesn’t look like a rail. As others have noted it’s quite possible that it has been re-used, though.