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Description: | Clay tobacco pipe, dating to c.1670-1730, 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 parallel to the stem. 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. The foot is plain with no makers mark. The bowl has a milled row of indented squares running around the half closest to the stem, starting below the rim and running down the bowl at an angle. The bow is 21.1mm in maximum diameter, 18.6mm at the mouth and 34.7mm tall. The stem is 10.0mm in diameter at the break with a hole 2.6mm in diameter. It weighs 17.55 grams.Ayto (2002, p.8) terms similar examples 'West Country Pipes'. These are long and thin in form like other contemporary pipes, but with a large flat base joining closely to the stem in the older style and the top of the bowl cut level with the stem in a new trend widely adopted from c.1700 onwards (Ayto 2002, p.10). The form is similar to a pipe from Shaftesbury dated to c.1670-1690 and one from Taunton dated 1700-1730 by Oswald (ibid:58, no.9 and 18) and suggested as local West Country forms.
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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