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Description: | Incomplete and ornate copper alloy pipe tamper, probably 18th/ 19th century in date.Either side of a 7mm long spike decorated with incised diagonal lines is a copper alloy model of a pipe, their bases joining onto the bar from which the spike protrudes. The pipe bowls are hollowed, but only to a certain the depth, the rest of the pipe being solid. An incised line beneath the open end decorates the bowl.The stems of the pipes are 36mm and 37mm long, circular in section, and taper from c.2.5mm in diameter at the bowl end to 1mm in diameter at the other. Two bars fit onto both stems, both of which are pierced in the middle. The one nearer to the bowl end is 3.5mm in diameter and the bar structure is rectangular in shape with three horizontal ribs running lengthways around it. The second is rather more pointed-oval in shape, the piercing 4mm in diameter and with a screw-thread. Presumably the tamping end screwed in here.48x31mm.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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