Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology; Papers 52-54 on Archeology — David Hume — John Shaqi
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology; Papers 52-54 on Archeology
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15. Tobacco-pipe bowl, clay, white surface and grey core, slightly
more evolved than no. 10 being more sharply angled at its
junction with the stem as well as being slightly longer and
narrower in the bowl. Note that this pipe still possesses the
rouletted line below the mouth that tends to be characteristic
of 17th-century examples. Stem-hole diameter 5/64 inch, about
1690-1710. A3.
16. Tobacco-pipe bowl, clay, white surface and grey core,
essentially similar to no. 15, but longer in the bowl and even
more angled at its junction with the stem. Stem-hole diameter
6/64 inch, about 1690-1710. B3A.
(Nos. 17-21 are surface finds from an as yet unexcavated site on
farmland owned by Miss Elizabeth Harwood, approximately a mile
and a quarter south of Clay Bank, and north of Aberdeen Creek.
They are included here as examples of earlier 17th-century
occupation in the Clay Bank area, and because one of the stem
fragments from this site bears the same X·I·F·X mark as appears
on five examples (no. 11) from the Jenkins site cellar hole.)
17. Tobacco-pipe bowl, white clay, flat broad heel, the bowl
somewhat bulbous in the mid section, neat rouletted line below
the mouth. Stem-hole diameter 7/64 inch, about 1630-1670.
18. Tobacco-pipe bowl, white clay with slipped surface, the bowl
shape characteristic of the mid-17th century, flat heel, and
roughly applied rouletted line below the mouth; maker's mark VS
stamped on upper surface of stem. Stem-hole diameter 7/64 inch,
about 1650-1690.
19. Tobacco-pipe bowl, fragment only, clay, white surface and grey
core, the bowl extremely bulbous and with a pronounced flat
heel. Maker's mark VS stamped on the upper surface of the
stem; dies different to those used for no. 18, but undoubtedly
the same maker. This is important in that it illustrates
the wide difference in bowl shapes produced, apparently
contemporaneously, by a single maker. Stem-hole diameter 7/64
inch, about 1650-1690.
20. Tobacco-pipe bowl, white clay, the bowl and early form of
no. 3 ornamented on the sides with six molded dots in high
relief,[56] the heel similar to no. 17 though slightly deeper.
Stem-hole diameter 8/64 inch, about 1640-1670.
21. Tobacco-pipe bowl, white clay with slipped surface, heavy
bulbous bowl and flat heel with the maker's mark M B on the
base; a narrow rouletted line around the bowl mouth. Stem-hole
diameter 7/64 inch, about 1650-1680.
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