>Like nails, or hinges, or gates, or locks, or tools for other workers. Most of these would have been luxuries to most, the exception being the tools which wou

>Like nails, or hinges, or gates, or locks, or tools for other workers. Most of these would have been luxuries to most, the exception being the tools which would have still been rare belonging to tradesmen. Nails in the late 1400's a 6 penny nail would have been about 1 USD a piece, a 16 penny nail about 2.60 USD a piece, nails were largely used for nice furniture/chests/affixing hardware which again would have been mostly for those in higher stations in life. Gates, ha, outside of castles gates were wood or movable stones used to block openings in rock walls (this is what the original Húsafell stone, of Strongman fame, was). Same for hinges, you wouldn't have seen too many doors outside of castles and businesses as you needed skilled tradesmen to even attempt to build structures that had remotely square corners. For locks, the Medievalist has a good article about them (it's a great site/publication in general) http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/medieval-padlocks-an-introduction/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/medieval-padlocks-an-int... the article is actually linked on that page as a PDF after a brief introduction. Didn't want to direct link the PDF for those with bandwidth limitations.