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Description: | An incomplete moulded clay tobacco pipe, of Post Medieval dating (17th 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. A maker's mark has been stamped into the foot. The mark contains the letters IH with three pellets or stars above, within a circular cartouche. The shape of the bowl is similar to that of an Oswald type 6 (Oswald, 1975, 37), typically of 17th Century dating.The clay pipe measures 35.39 mm high, with a maximum diameter 19.54 mm. It has a surviving length of 48.03 mm. The wall of the clay pipe bowl is 3.92 mm thick. The internal diameter of the bore through the stem measures 3.01 mm. It weighs 10.6 grams.Reference:Oswald, A. 1975 Clay Pipes for the Archaeologist. British Archaeological Reports 14, Oxford.
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