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Description: | A clay pipe bowl. A "Dorset-Somerset" type bowl which is gently curved and outward leaning. It is narrow waisted and slightly bulbous at the top. It is milled around the rim of the bowl. The heel is flat and sub-circular with a stamped maker's mark comprising the incuse letters RB. This possible a mark for Richard Butt as there is a more detailed mark for this maker on another pipe found at the same location (DOR-975777). No direct parallel for this was found in the published types for Dorset, but there was a 17th century maker called George Butt (whose mark was often GB) and Richard could be a maker of the same family. Date: Post-medieval - c1640 - 1670 Dimensions: Bowl diameter - 11.94 mm Height - 26.07 mm Weight: 8.87 g Reference: Atkinson D R ,1969, "Clay Tobacco Pipes found in Shaftesbury", DNHAS Proc Vol. 91, 206-215
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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clay pipe
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