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Description: | Clay tobacco pipe, dating to c.1700, the bowl and end of the stem survive, the mouth part is missing. The bowl is swollen, convex curved between the mouth and foot on both sides and projects out over the foot. The mouth is at a slight angle to the stem suggesting hand trimming. The large flat foot projects only a little from the base of the bowl and is wider and longer than the base, starting level with the stem. This large foot takes the makers mark, in this case the incuse letters R P//TAVN//TON. The bowl has a milled row of indented squares just below the rim. the bow is 22.5mm in maximum diameter, 18.2mm at the mouth and 36.2mm tall. The stem is 9.6mm in diameter at the break with a hole 3.0mm in diameter. It weighs 16.45 grams.Two similarly stamped pipes are recorded by Leach from Taunton (1984, pp.147-150), no's: 34 and 35. He suggests they were made by Roger Pound, recorded as a pipe maker in indenture papers of AD 1692. Oswald (1975:18-19) suggests the milling around the top of the bowl was popular in the 17th century in England but discontinued after c.1700 as moulds that allowed the top of the bowl to be trimmed in the mould were developed. Again supporting this date range. The form is similar to pipes from Taunton dated to c.1690-1730 and 1700-1730 by Oswald (ibid:58).
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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