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Description: | The bowl of a post-medieval clay tobacco pipe broken at its junction with the stem. The bowl is swollen, convex curved between the mouth and heel on both sides and projects out over the heel. The mouth is parallel to the stem. The sub-oval flat heel projects only a little from the base of the bowl and is wider and longer than the base, starting level with the stem. This large heel is stamped with the maker's mark, in this case the incuse letters IEF/FRY H/VNT within a stamped linear border. The bowl has a rouletted row of indented rectangles just below the rim all around, but slightly off set.The bow is 22.4mm in maximum diameter, 15.7mm at the mouth and 32.1mm tall. The stem is 10.5mm in diameter at the break with a hole 3.4mm in diameter. It weighs 8.76 grams.The maker's name, Jeffry Hunt, is well documented in the local literature with an example in this form known from Taunton (Leach 1984, 145-146; ref. 17), dated c. AD 1650-1690. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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