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Description: | An incomplete moulded clay tobacco pipe, of Post Medieval dating (17th to 18th Centuries AD).The clay tobacco pipe has been moulded from a white pipeclay.The pipe fragment consists of an incomplete bowl and part of the stem. No maker's marks are present on the spur, bowl or stem. The rim of the bowl is incomplete. The bowl is similar to an Oswald type 19, which typically dates from c. AD 1690 to c. AD 1710.The clay pipe measures 40.31 mm high, with a maximum diameter 22.84 mm. It has a surviving length of 67.17 mm. The wall of the clay pipe bowl is 2.04 mm thick. The internal diameter of the bore through the stem measures 2.10 mm It weighs 9.2 grams.Reference:Oswald, A. 1975 Clay Pipes for the Archaeologist. British Archaeological Reports 14, Oxford.
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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