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IMOJ for the earliest la the 1680s for the latar.
Nine of the twenry-two marked bowls or bowl fragment fcom the acupmion rma were
stamped with the initids "PS" which, bad solely on lhetr numbers, play an imponant
role m daring the acupation of Ute h- (Fipr 8% 8h and 9). Specimens were
dimvered in and below the emhen flm, in the hemh m a and in the midden outside
he houw. An additional five 'PS" bowls were movered from the houw collapse
stratum. This mark has ban muibutcd to Peter Stephens (Stevens) fmm Bamrwble lb.
16 16. d. 1668) (Grant and Jcma 1985:472473). Although it is unclear when Stephens
began stamping his own pipes. it war pmbably circa IM6 as he is recorded as wklng on
M JppRntice thu year and therefore was a master pipe maker by that tim (Grant and
kmmett 19854724731. Resumably. b wd on the fragility of the clay pipe. pipes
bewing hts stamp would not have survived long after his death. All the mognhsblc
"PS" pipe bowls (romc of Ule m& are on incomplele bowl fngmene) are of a style
attributed to the period 16601680(0rwald 197558-59). As Peter Stephmsdied in
1668. it would appearthattho pipes from Renews were likely made during the lasldecadc
or ro of his life.
'The second idemifiable pipe maher was LIueILin Evans who mkd his pipes with a
"LE" on the bowl facing the smoker. This mark was found on acomplete bowl and on a
fragment fmm another. There am wo adjoining diamon* shape heovesn the !nitids