Throckley, clay tobacco pipes

HER Number:
1419

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Throckley, clay tobacco pipes

Place:
Throckley

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Dress and Personal Accessories

Site Type: Broad:
Dress Component

Site Type: Specific:
Clay Pipe (Smoking)

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1976 4 clay pipe bowls were found in a midden near Blaney Row, Throckley Reath. 1. Plain bowl. 2. Two bowls with the stamp 'Tennant and Sons', probably William Tennant of Newcastle, 1875-1925. 'Burns Cutty' is stamped on the stem. 3. A bowl decorated with a fish-scale pattern around the upper part, and a curved linear pattern at the junction with the stem. On the stem are the letters 'DE...' and '...ND', probably the stamp of J. Denton of Sunderland, working from 1865.

Easting:
151

Northing:
654

Grid Reference:
NZ151654

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1419 >> C. North, 1980, Clay Pipes, Archaeological Newsbulletin for Council British Archaeology, Regional Group, 3, Series 2, No. 12, December 1980, pp. 15-16