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Description: | Two clay pipe bowls, dating to 1640-1680 (most likely 1660-1680). Both have an oval heel which is scored with a straight line widthways. Both have a rouletted rim. Both appear to be unused. The stem is broken off one of the bowls, the other has c.25mm of stem. Bowl 1 (with stem) weight 12.45g, Bowl 2 (no stem) 10.50g. White, in Davey 1979 (The Archaeology of th Clay Tobacco Pipe) publishes a number of 17th century clay pipe bowls from Vicar's Court, Lincoln, with similarly scored heels, and suggests that they should be "best understood as some sort of batch mark". | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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