Collection

Collection of Pintles

Figure 923. Collection of pintles

All of these pintles were in the J. Eli Gregg barn so they are presumed to have been on his buildings. The three views of the plate type pintles show that they required screws to attach them to the wall. The spike type pintles were the most frequently used, and they were always put in place with boh pintles pointing up. That made it easy for anyone waning a door to simply lift one off its pintles. Though admittedly this is not the traditional method, the hewn-timber cabins now have one pintle pointing up and one down. Photo 1984.