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PIPE (SMOKING)
Unique ID: PUBLIC-6FA88B
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A fragment of a post-medieval clay pipe stem of late 17th- to early 18th-century date. The bowl is completely lost to a old break. The stem tapers from the heel, and appears to be truncated at the other end. The heel has been stamped with a maker's mark of a sixteen pointed star in a lozenge.
The fragment measures 45 mm in length, and up to 7 mm in thickness. A directly comparable maker's mark has been recorded on a pipe found in the same parish, recorded as SOM-8BA2D1 on this database. The mark can also be compared with two pipes from Taunton illustrated in Leach (1984,148-150; nos 56, 57), dated to the late 17th to early 18th century.
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 1675
Date to: Circa AD 1725
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Diameter: 45 mm
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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
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higgins, D. A. | 2018 | A Group of Pipes from Carhampton, Somerset | Merseyside | SOCIETY FOR CLAY PIPE RESEARCH | |||
| Leach, P. | 1984 | The Archaeology of Taunton - Excavations and Fieldwork to 1980 | Gloucester | Western Archaeological Trust - Monograph 8 | 148-150 | 56, 57 |
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