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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, foot and start of the stem. No maker's marks are present on the foot, bowl or stem. The rim of the bowl is incomplete. The bowl is possibly similar to an Oswald type 11 (Oswald, 1975, 37), which typically dates from c. AD 1730 to c. AD 1760.The clay pipe measures 36.51 mm high, with a maximum diameter 20.64 mm. It has a surviving length of 37.13 mm. The wall of the clay pipe bowl is 2.82 mm thick. The internal diameter of the bore through the stem measures 2.59 mm It weighs 12.4 grams.Reference:Oswald, A. 1975 Clay Pipes for the Archaeologist. British Archaeological Reports 14, Oxford.
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