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CLAY PIPE (SMOKING)
Unique ID: MAS-D100085
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A selection of seven clay pipes.
Two of the pipes are of 'Irish' type (Atkinson and Oswald 1969, type 31, dated post-1840), with spurs and milled bowl rims, and the remaining five are of a spur-less form copying the briar pipe (ibid., type 30, dated c. 1850-1910). All of the clay pipes are 'cutty' (short) pipes. The spur-less examples are all stamped with the mark 'H B W Russell Co.'. This appears to be the mark of an agent or retailer rather than the pipe manufacturer (as is more usual). H. B. W. Russell may have a connection with Liverpool - pipes stamped 'HBW Russell of Liverpool' have been found in Ghana (Basford 2012), but the company also had a base in Cape Town (Micots 2010).
Notes:
These items were found with three cylindrical glass bottles (MAS-D100084), the lid of a ceramic serving dish MAS-D100087) and two green glass gin bottles (MAS-D100101).
Class:
DRESS AND PERSONAL ACCESSORIES
Sub class: PIPE (SMOKING)
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: With finder
Subsequent action after recording: Submitted as wreck to the Receiver of Wreck
Chronology
Broad period: NINETEENTH CENTURY
Period from: NINETEENTH CENTURY
Period to: MODERN
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 7
Length: 130 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 6th August 2017
Personal details
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Recorded by: L R
Identified by: L M
Secondary identifier: V L
Materials and construction
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR3844
Four figure Latitude: 51.1457526
Four figure longitude: 1.4013985
1:25K map: TR3844
1:10K map: TR34SE
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Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
- Atkinson, D and Oswald, A, 1969. London clay tobacco pipes. England : Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 171-227 ,
- Basford, J L, 2012 ‘A commodity of good names': the branding of products, c.1650-1900 York : University of York, 347 ,
- Micots, C, 2010 African Coastal Elite Architecture: cultural authentification during the Colonial period in Anomabo, Ghana California : University of California, 216 ,
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