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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 bowl has a rouletted row of indented rectangles all the way around just below the plain, upright mouth. 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 [ED]W//[VN]DE[R]//[H]IL, in three lines. About a tenth of the heel is missing to a chip on one side which has removed part of the maker's mark. There is a hole near the base of the bowl and the stem is completely missing to a break.The bow is 18.3mm in maximum diameter, 14.7mm at the mouth and 32.8mm tall including the heel. The stem is 9.2mm in diameter at the break with a hole 3.1mm in diameter. It weighs 7.89 grams.The maker, Edward Underhill, is known to have been active in Leigh-upon-Mendip from AD 1655 to 1695. A pipe of a similar design (CP26) is published from the Shapwick excavations. (Lewcun 2007, 675, 680 and fig 14.1). SOM-7EA657 on this database is similar.
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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