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Description: | A cast cu-alloy tamper for a clay tobacco pipe dating from the late post medieval or early modern period, i.e. c. 1600-1850.The tamper is of composite construction in the form of a claw hammer. It probably had a flat oval tamper (now missing) sitting in a hole in the top of the hammer and a long narrow pointed shaft which penetrated the missing wooden or bone handle which sat inside the socket. The neck of the handle is rilled circumferentially and the block between the hammer head and the fork is decorated with concentric ring-and dot impressions. Pipe tampers which are shaped like small hammers or claw hammers are quite common and a number have been recorded on the PAS database (see below). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Boughton, Dot - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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