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Description: | An incomplete moulded clay tobacco pipe, of Post Medieval dating (17th to 18th Centuries AD).The clay tobacco pipe has been moulded from a white pipeclay.The pipe fragment consists of a complete bowl, foot and start of the stem. No maker's marks are present on the foot, bowl or stem. A line of rouletting is present close to the rim of the bowl. The bowl is similar to an Oswald type 6 (Oswald, 1975, 37), which typically dates from c. AD 1640 to c. AD 1660.The clay pipe measures 35.7 mm high, with a maximum diameter 16.5 mm. It has a surviving length of 32.3 mm. The wall of the clay pipe bowl is 2.3 mm thick. The internal diameter of the bore through the stem measures 3.1 mm. It weighs 9.2 grams.Reference:Oswald, A. 1975 Clay Pipes for the Archaeologist. British Archaeological Reports 14, Oxford.
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