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PIPE (SMOKING)
Unique ID: WMID-346201
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
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 an incomplete bowl, foot and start of the stem. No maker's marks are present on the foot, bowl or stem. The rim of the bowl is incomplete. The bowl is possibly similar to an Oswald type 11 (Oswald, 1975, 37), which typically dates from c. AD 1730 to c. AD 1760.
The clay pipe measures 36.86 mm high, with a maximum diameter 19.86 mm. It has a surviving length of 40.55 mm. The wall of the clay pipe bowl is 2.81 mm thick. The internal diameter of the bore through the stem measures 2.53 mm It weighs 12.9 grams.
Reference:
Oswald, A. 1975 Clay Pipes for the Archaeologist. British Archaeological Reports 14, Oxford.
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 1730
Date to: Circa AD 1760
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.55 mm
Height: 36.86 mm
Thickness: 2.81 mm
Weight: 12.9 g
Diameter: 19.86 mm
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Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Staffordshire (County)
District: Newcastle-under-Lyme (District)
Parish or ward: Keele (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SJ8044
Four figure Latitude: 52.992952
Four figure longitude: -2.299408
1:25K map: SJ8044
1:10K map: SJ84SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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