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PIPE (SMOKING)
Unique ID: SOM-02D5C7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
The bowl of a post-medieval clay tobacco pipe broken at its junction with the stem. The bowl is swollen, convex curved between the mouth and heel on both sides and projects out over the heel. The mouth is parallel to the stem. The sub-oval flat heel projects only a little from the base of the bowl and is wider and longer than the base, starting level with the stem. This large heel is stamped with the maker's mark, in this case the incuse letters GEO / WEBB / IN / CHARD within a stamped pellet border. The bowl has a milled row of indented triangles just below the rim, it is slightly irregular coming up and over the rim at points.
The bow is 22.4mm in maximum diameter, 15.7mm at the mouth and 32.1mm tall. The stem is 10.5mm in diameter at the break with a hole 3.4mm in diameter. It weighs 8.76 grams.
The maker's name, in full, George Webb, is well documented in the local literature with examples of pipes with the same form of makers mark known from Taunton (Leach 1984, 148, 150; ref. 43) and from Donyatt (Coleman-Smith and Pearson 1988, 346-347; ref. 43/10), both dated c. AD 1700.
Inscription:
GEO /WEBB /IN /CHARD
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 1680
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.3 mm
Width: 22.4 mm
Thickness: 32.1 mm
Weight: 8.76 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 22323
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: West Somerset (District)
Parish or ward: Old Cleeve (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST0342
Four figure Latitude: 51.16898872
Four figure longitude: -3.3887794
1:25K map: ST0342
1:10K map: ST04SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coleman Smith, R. and Pearson, T. | 1988 | Excavations in the Donyatt Potteries | Chichester | Phillimore | 346-347 | 43/10 | |
| Leach, P. | 1984 | The Archaeology of Taunton - Excavations and Fieldwork to 1980 | Gloucester | Western Archaeological Trust - Monograph 8 | 148, 150 | 43 |
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