Part of a trade pipe

[Older The Better]

once the leaves hit I tend to shift to metal detecting but I did revisit my trade site and came up with a good portion of a trade pipe and either the base of a little triangle or a broken stem. Also been playing with a camera technique called focus stacking not sure if that one will work it said it uploaded but is just showing a black screen.

 

[Older The Better]

Looks like too large here’s a screen shot I guess… still pretty good but you don’t keep the quality when you zoom way in

 

[GirlWithWolf]

That’s cool! That’s a lot of pieces.

 

[Hellbilly]

Id be looking hard for the bowl

 

[pepperj]

Well done on getting the stem of the pipe. The links and the information is for dating the stem by the bore hole. Just use drill bits to size the bore hole (using the chuck end of the drill bit)

Clay Pipe Stems – Brick Store Museum

www.brickstoremuseum.org

Another method of dating clay pipes is to measure the interior hole size of the stem. In the 1950’s, J.C. Harrington studied thousands of pipe stems from archaeological sites and concluded that pipe stems could be dated based on their interior hole or bore size.
Harrington published that early pipe stems (1590 to 1620) had larger holes than later pipe stems. In fact, Harrington categorized pipe bore sizes into six time periods.
Time Period Diameter

1590 to 1620 9/64 inches

1620 to 1650 8/64 inches

1650 to 1680 7/64 inches

1680 to 1720 6/64 inches

1720 to 1750 5/64 inches

date

www.pipearchive.co.uk

 

[Older The Better]

I may have parts of the bowl, that I’ve found in the past, I’ll have to try to measure the diameter. I’ve come up with a better screen, once my materials come and I get it assembled I may have to go back and give it a test run. Weather permitting.

 

[Older The Better]

Did the drill bit test. 7/64 is too large, 6/64 is pretty good but there is just a smidge of wiggle room. So by that system 1680-1720