Tobacco Pipe Bowls
Tobacco pipe
During the course of excavating on post medieval sites, especially bastle houses and 17th and 18th century settlements, a large collection of tobacco pipe bowls and stems with maker’s marks has been gathered.
Since clay pipe bowls had a short duration of use before breakage, indeed many were broken before they could be used! They offer a valuable tool in dating activity on sites. Dennis Gallagher has been commissioned by BAG to report on their assemblages of pipe bowls and stems from various excavations. This will appear on this web site.
