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Description: | An incomplete post medieval ceramic tobacco pipe dating AD1580-1610. This tobacco pipe has a small, rounded bowl, which has an internal diameter of 10.46mm. The bowl is set at an oblique angle to the stem and there is a raised ridge around the rim of the bowl with a rouletted design running around it. There is a plain, flat, circular heel at the junction between the bowl and the stem with an eight-armed star maker's mark in the centre. The bowl is burnished. The stem is not present as it is broken at the bowl. The dating of the pipe is based on the dating chart in Atkinson & Oswald (1969) type 2.Dimensions: length: 23.52 mm; external diameter: 13.37 mm; weight: 5.71 g.Reference: Atkinson, D. and Oswald, A. 1969. London Clay Tobacco Pipes. In J Archaeol Assoc, 3rd Series, Vol 32.
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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