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Description: | An incomplete post medieval ceramic tobacco pipe dating AD1610-1640. This tobacco pipe has a small, rounded bowl, which has an internal diameter of 10.84 mm. The bowl is set at an oblique angle to the stem and there is a rouletted design running around the rim. There is a plain, flat, circular heel at the junction between the bowl and the stem with a seven or eight-armed sun/star maker's mark in the centre. The bowl is burnished. Hardly any of the stem is present as it is broken near the bowl. The dating of the pipe is based on the dating chart in Atkinson & Oswald (1969) type 4.The maker's mark is not listed on the Museum of London website http://archive.museumoflondon.org.uk/claypipes/pages/marks.asp.Dimensions: length: 33.31 mm; external diameter: 14.93 mm; weight: 8.01g.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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