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Description: | Part of 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 and projects out over the heel, c.60% of the bowl is missing down one side. The mouth is parallel to the stem. The surviving part of the bowl has a rouletted row of indented rectangles 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 [E]DW// VNDE[R]//HIL in three lines. The stem is completely missing to a break.The piece is now 30.2mm long, 27.7mm tall and 14.5mm thick, it weighs 3.17 grams.The maker Edward Underhill, is known to have been active in Leigh-upon-Mendip from 1655 to 1695. A pipe of a similar design (CP26) is published from the Shapwick excavations. (Lewcun 2007, 675, 680 and fig 14.1). See also SOM-7CB043 on this database.
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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