Tynemouth, Spanish Battery, clay tobacco pipes

HER Number:
13540

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Spanish Battery, clay tobacco pipes

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Dress and Personal Accessories

Site Type: Broad:
Personal Accessory

Site Type: Specific:
Clay Pipe (Smoking)

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18-C19

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Two clay tobacco pipe fragments found at Spanish Battery. 1) Late 19th or early 20th century part of a bowl. A crocodile head and body with a river bank outline (could be an assimilated balance mark). 2) vine scroll and pearl decoration on a stem-bowl junction. This design began as an incised technique in the late 18th century and early 19th, but persisited in relief form throughout the 1800s.

Easting:
373

Northing:
690

Grid Reference:
NZ373690

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Eric Parsons, 1969, Clay tobacco-pipes from Tynemouth, Northumberland in Archaeological Newsbulletin for Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, No. 6, Sept 1969, pp 9-10