Clay Pipe stem or...? Update.

[Tattooguy67]

Hi everyone, recently TimBobWey and I went water and beach hunting and we had a little digging buddy help us, a really nice young lady who found lots of rusty nails and glass shards and this piece in ?, it is around 1''x3/8ths''x1/4'' and is very porous, the first thing I thought was old clay pipe stem but then I thought aren't those glazed, then well maybe wave and sand etched it off or....? anyway if you could look at the pics and give me any thoughts I would be thankful! HH and thanks for reading.

Chuck.
Thanks all for reading and the info on this, I got my drill bits out and the one that fit best was 3/32nd dia. with just a tiny bit of play, and I mean tiny, so again thanks and any idea on age here?

Chuck.

 

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[aka da Prof]

Re: Clay Pipe stem or...?

seems to me to be a pipe stem- no, I don't think they were glazed-

 

[Bramblefind]

Re: Clay Pipe stem or...?

You can take some drill bits and use them to get a measurement of the stem bore. That will give you a approx. idea of when it was made -

http://www.primaryresearch.org/PRTHB/Archaeology/book.php#RD

Diameter

Dates
9/64

1590-1620
8/64

1620-1650
7/64

1650-1680
6/64

1680-1720
5/64

1720-1750
4/64

1750-1800

During the mid 1500’s, pipe smoking became very popular in England. Although there was a limited supply of tobacco available at the time, clay pipes were inexpensive to make and therefore nearly anyone could afford to buy them. People disposed of their clay pipes after using them only a few times; this is why so many English kaolin pipe fragments are unearthed at archaeological excavations. These pipes were brought to America to be traded to Indians and colonies. This is why archaeological sites in the New England area usually contain thousands of kaolin pipe fragments.

With tobacco becoming more accessible, the bowl of the pipe became larger and the stem became longer. As technology in pipe manufacturing progressed, pipe makers found ways to make the hole in the stem smaller, allowing for less tobacco to go unburned. They did this by using a smaller bore to drill a hole in the stem.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Re: Clay Pipe stem or...?

Pipe stem.
I find them in my fields where I detect for Colonial Artifacts.
Dutch, French and English women all enjoyed the "Indian Weed". For centuries the favorite way of enjoying tobacco was to smoke it in clay pipes. As early as about 1575 pipes were being made in England, but by the 17th century Holland had become the dominant center for the manufacture of clay pipes. Clays were made in many other European countries at this time, as well. Such pipes were usually white, with small bowls and long stems. They were extremely fragile and did not last long.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Clay Pipe stem or...?



Common find in the fields of the UK, in the 19th century they were known as Penny Pipes

SS

 

[kuger]

Re: Clay Pipe stem or...?

Common find in the fields of the UK, in the 19th century they were known as Penny Pipes

SS

Yep,common in certain sites here too