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Description: | Two incomplete clay tobacco pipe bowls of late post medieval date (1660-1680). Both examples are similar in style to David Atkinson's Broseley Type 2a /2b dated to 1660-1680. Both bowls are very similar - although one has a much exaggerated profile. The bowls are relatively long with a distinct baluster shaped profile - that expands from a small narrow circular bowl - expands at the mid point and contracts at the base. The mouth of the bowl is angled and both the pipes show signs of burnishing (straight, smoothing strokes) bottering (smoothing of the bowl rim) and rouletting. Each of the heels is marked, however with different makers.Pipe 1: Heel mark star / wheel formed from twelve irregular interlocking triangular wedges. The pipe measures 27.6mm length, height 36.9mm bowl diameter at the mouth 14.1mm, diameter at mid point 19.1 heel diameter 10.7mm, weight 8.73 grams.Pipe 2: Heel mark partial - initial I(H) contained within a circle of pellets. The mark is partial impressed at the slant - the I is ligated to another letter - which seems from what remains to be a H - if this were the case then it is possibly the mark of John Hammonds of bondsman in 1676 at Pipe Aston (Berlyn 2008: 22). The pipe measures 32.8mm length, height 35.8mm bowl diameter at the mouth 15.5mm, diameter at mid point 18.4 heel diameter 11.4mm, weight 9.83 grams.
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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