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PIPE TAMPER
Unique ID: WREX-7AD0BD
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper alloy pipe stopper / tamper of post medieval date, c. 1700-1800AD. Post Medieval copper alloy pipe tamper dating from AD 1700 - 1800. The object takes the form of a squatting female with her skirt pulled up, apparently urinating. The woman has an elaborate hair-do, or bonnet. She is standing on a cylindrical tamper which flares from the figurine handle to the flat tamping end. The object is very worn,
Height: 56.6mm; width: 15.6mm; thickness: 9.9mm; weight: 18.4mm
Notes:
"Bawdy" scenes were popular as the subject matter for personal objects such as smoking apparatus. A very similar example is NLM-4EF087 and SWYOR-C3DE5C is also a good parallel.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 56.6 mm
Width: 15.6 mm
Thickness: 9.9 mm
Weight: 18.4 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 18th June 2018 - Monday 17th September 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NWales PAS 170918/10
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Craven (District)
To be known as: Austwick
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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