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PIPE (SMOKING)
Unique ID: SOM-EA8BA7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
The broken bowl of a post-medieval clay tobacco pipe broken at its junction with the stem resulting in the loss of around half of the bowl. 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 heel. The sub-circular flat heel projects only a little from the base of the bowl. It is stamped with the maker's mark, in this case the incuse letters P W / TAVN / TON within a stamped border formed of small triangles. The bowl has a rouletted/milled row of indented squares just below the rim, it is slightly curved. A moulding seam can be seen at the centre of the front of the bowl.
This maker's mark is documented in the local literature with examples of pipes with the same form of maker's mark known from Taunton (Leach 1984, 148, 150; ref. 44) dated c. AD 1700. This is based on a supposition that the maker was William Pyne, an apprentice known to be active in 1692. The form of the bowl is consistent with this date.
Inscription:
P W / TAVN / TON
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1690
Date to: Circa AD 1710
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.8 mm
Height: 35.6 mm
Width: 21 mm
Weight: 5.85 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st April 2013 - Tuesday 30th April 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 22463
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: West Somerset (District)
To be known as: Carhampton CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 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 | 148, 150 | 44 |
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