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PIPE (SMOKING)
Unique ID: SOM-B0EF81
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Part of the bowl of a post-medieval clay tobacco pipe with one profile, the heel and a very short section of the stem remaining. About 50% of the bowl has been lost to a ragged old break. There is a line of rouletting (small rectangles) just below the mouth of the bowl. The bowl is angled at about 45 degrees to the stem and swollen sided, although the complete form is unclear. The base of the heel is flat and broadly circular. It is stamped with the maker's mark, in this case the neat, seriffed incuse letters IE[F]/FRY . H/VNT. The fragment is 35.3mm long by 28.9mm high by 15.8mm thick and weighs 1.43g.
The maker's name, Jeffry Hunt, is well documented in the local literature with examples known from Taunton (Leach 1984, 145-146; refs. 17, 18), dated c. AD 1650-1690.
Inscription:
IE[F]/FRY . H/VNT
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 1650
Date to: Circa AD 1690
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.3 mm
Height: 28.9 mm
Thickness: 15.8 mm
Weight: 1.43 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 018619
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: Somerton CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leach, P. | 1984 | The Archaeology of Taunton - Excavations and Fieldwork to 1980 | Gloucester | Western Archaeological Trust - Monograph 8 |
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