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Description: | 18th/ 19th century copper alloy pipe tamper, circular in section with an expanded'tamping'end, and a flattened oval terminal depicting the (rather unflattering) head of a woman on both sides. The shank swells slightly before narrowing in and expanding outwards to the tamping end.The pipe tamper bends slightly in the middle, presumably to give a better angle for holding and tamping. It also narrows as it nears the oval terminal.It is 59mm in bent length, while the oval terminal measures 24x21x2mm. The tamping end has a diameter of 9mm and the shank seems to narrow from a diameter of 6mm to 4mm.The woman has long curls and a headress on top of her head. Her features are blunt and worn and quite ugly - bulbous eyes and large nostrils. She is wearing a choker and a gwon draped around her shoulders. She is set on a background on ?incised lines and within a border of incised horizontal lines between crosses, X-X-X-X etc. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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PIPE TAMPER
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy pipe…
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