Spanish Battery, clay tobacco pipes

Spanish Battery, clay tobacco pipes

HER Number
13540
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Spanish Battery, clay tobacco pipes
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Clay Pipe (Smoking)
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
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
437300
Northing
569000
Grid Reference
NZ437300569000
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