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Unique ID: WMID-3570C7
Object type certainty: Certain
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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, tailed foot and start of the stem. A maker's mark has been stamped into the tailed foot. It comprises a square cartouche, with three lines of lettering, reading ROB ART POOL. The rim of the bowl exhibits a small amount of rouletting.
The clay pipe measures 40.55 mm high, with a maximum diameter 20.82 mm. It has a surviving length of 39.44 mm. The wall of the clay pipe bowl is 2.23 mm thick. The internal diameter of the bore through the stem measures 2.34 mm. It weighs 12.8 grams.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Quantity: 1
Length: 39.44 mm
Height: 40.55 mm
Thickness: 2.23 mm
Weight: 12.8 g
Diameter: 20.82 mm
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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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