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PIPE (SMOKING)
Unique ID: WMID-3AB304
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete moulded clay tobacco pipe, of Post Medieval dating (18th to 19th Centuries AD).
The clay tobacco pipe has been moulded from a white pipeclay.
The pipe fragment consists of an incomplete bowl and part of the stem. No maker's marks are present on the spur, bowl or stem. The rim of the bowl is incomplete.
The clay pipe measures 27.4 mm high. It has a surviving length of 21.3mm. The wall of the clay pipe bowl is 3.0 mm thick. The internal diameter of the bore through the stem measures 1.6 mm It weighs 3.5 grams.
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 1720
Date to: Circa AD 1840
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.3 mm
Height: 27.4 mm
Weight: 3.5 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Staffordshire (County)
District: East Staffordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Denstone (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK1042
Four figure Latitude: 52.97525989
Four figure longitude: -1.85252911
1:25K map: SK1042
1:10K map: SK14SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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