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bowi shapes. Many of these are similar ta pipe found in similarly-&red wlnual depasia
from Feqland and cornpond to tbe Fewand Typ Codes established by Peter Pope tn
1991.
Undoubtedly. the most accurate tml for dating tobacco p ip wos the rtmp applied u, the
pipes by their &n. Thew marks (usually initials or rymbolr) were used by pipe
maken to identify their pmdum. L the earliest rimer thew marks were stamped on the
bue of the flatencd heel beneath Ihe pipe bowls: later they were slamped on the rides of
heels. on rhe bowls and on pipe stems. The we value of the pipe make* mnrks wos
Iha. if identified. lhcy can hie a p!p to Ule working life of ic. maker. which normally
spanned two lo the decades (Oswald 1975:52-53).
Marks fmm eight seventeenlhsentury pipe mrLcn were discovered on twenty-nine of the
one hundred and fifty-four pipe bowls from the seventeenth-century houx collapse and
underlying a'cuption r m (Table 13). Anaber pyrial mark was present on r bowi
fragment. Ar it was likely that the house collapse loslum could contain pipes dropped on
the site after the house had been abandoned. only the ninety-seven specimens fmm Ihe
aceupation strata (Events 4.36 and 37) were used to dme tbe habitation of the hww. Of
there. twenty-trio exhibited maker's marks (Figurer 8 to 13). The identities of three of
these &n have been iLntifrcd while the place of manufacture and date range have
been med for the ober five marlo. The dates of the maker's marks mge fmm the