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PIPE (SMOKING)
Unique ID: NLM-391DC5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Pipeclay tobacco pipe fragments. A fragment of pipe bowl with flat oval pedestal of length 14mm, and two fragments of pipe stem. Both stem fragments and that attached to the bowl fragment are fairly thick; angle of bowl is compatible with northern bulbous pipes of the later 17th century, but belongs to a broader bowl than these. The bore of the stem attached to bowl is wide at 3.5mm. Suggested date: 1700-1750.
Length (largest fragment): 45.4mm, Height (bowl): 25.7mm, Weight (all three fragments): 15.79g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
Length: 45.4 mm
Height: 25.7 mm
Weight: 15.79 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st April 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM14498
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Middle Rasen
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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