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The Potential for the Archaeological Study of Clay Tobacco Pipes from Australian Sites

Australasian Historical Archaeology, 1999

This paper proposes that clay pipes are an 'ideal 'artefact because of a range of characteristics including cheapness, ease of discard, being marked and dated, and stylistic differences that may reflect socio-economic differentiation. It reviews the historical development of clay pipes in Australia and the early local manufacture of pipes. It discusses the Australian tobacco habits and examines issues of trade, marketing and consumption and how that affected people's acquisition and disposal of pipes. This section includes i discussion on the 'Squatters Budgeree' pipe which was made in Great Britain for the Australian market. It examines the usefulness of clay pipe remains in dating Australian archaeological sites.

About Connections: A Brief Overture to Smoking and Pipes in Historical Archaeology

Archaeologies of Smoking, Pipes and Transatlantic Connections, 2024

This book presentation offers a brief overview of pipe making in Europe, from its early days to the nineteenth century, and a discussion on how these products connected global markets and consolidated smoking practices. Considering how archaeology has studies these pipes throughout the decades, this chapter highlights some of the main discussion themes, such as determining chronology, identifying production techniques, sourcing pipe types, global markets and connections, and expressions of identity and ethnicity. Lastly, it situates the other chapters from this book in this scenario.

Clay tobacco pipes from Aboriginal middens on Fraser Island, Queensland

Australian Archaeology , 1998

This paper examines the age, place of manufacture and cultural significance of clay tobacco pipes found on two Aboriginal shell middens at Corroboree Beach, Fraser Island, south-east Queensland (Fig. 1). Although clay pipes are often found in European archaeological sites in Australia, surpris- ingly few detailed analyses of these items have been published. As such, the methodological approach taken in this paper will be of interest to those analysing clay pipes in other archaeological contexts. Furthermore, the study represents the first detailed analysis of this class of European material culture from Aboriginal 'contact' sites in Queensland, and indeed one of very few for other parts of Australia (see Coutts et al. 1977:195). Following recent interest in the archaeology of nineteenth century Aboriginal-European interaction in Australia (e.g. Rhodes 1990, 1995; Birmingham 1992; Layton 1992:89-1 13), our paper reveals the potential of clay tobacco pipes to shed light on some of the economic and social dimensions of Aboriginal life on the colonial frontier.

Higgins 1995 - Clay Tobacco Pipes from Excavations in the Manifold Valley, Staffordshire

This report details clay tobacco pipes found during archaeological excavations in the Manifold Valley on the western side of the Pennines in Staffordshire, England. This was a relatively remote hill farming area but the inhabitants were clearly still able to access a regular supply of goods from surrounding markets up to 50 miles away. The mid-seventeenth century pipes were generally local in character but, by the 1680s, pipes from the Broseley and Much Wenlock area of Shropshire nearly 50 miles to the south west were regularly traded to the area, with other products coming from diverse centres in Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Cheshire. These show that, far from being a remote farming community, the inhabitants were well connected with contemporary fashions from a large surrounding area.

Higgins 2011 - Clay Tobacco Pipes from Excavations at Bewsey Old Hall, Warrington

Specialist report dealing with a very large assemblage of clay tobacco pipes from a excavations at a moated hall site in the north-west of England. Most of the pipes date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and they provide one of the best reference groups for this region. The report looks at the pipes consumed in this high status household, most of which were obtained from local production centres such as Rainford, near Liverpool, and Chester. The report includes an extensive illustrated catalogue of bowl forms and makers marks, which provides a useful reference point for the identification of products from this region.

Higgins 2017 - Guidelines for ... Clay Tobacco Pipes from Archaeological Projects

These "Guidelines for the Recovery and Processing of Clay Tobacco Pipes from Archaeological Projects" are designed to provide a first point of reference for anyone undertaking archaeological work involving pipes, whether this be planning archaeological fieldwork, collecting, analysing, cataloguing and curating pipes or carrying out specific research projects on them. These guidelines have been written with particular reference to British pipes but the same principles are widely applicable to assemblages from most other parts of the world. Each section is intended to provide an overview of the topic, with general advice and pointers as to where more detailed guidance or resources can be found. The various sections are designed to enable non-specialists to undertake basic work themselves while at the same time gaining experience within broad guidelines as to ‘best practice’. They are also designed to encourage common standards amongst specialists and to enable archaeological curators and managers to assess the scope and quality of any given pipe report. A glossary has also been prepared to explain the terms and abbreviations most frequently encountered in specialist literature dealing with pipes.

Higgins 1996 - Clay Tobacco Pipes From Excavations At Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon, 1980-1991

This paper describes, illustrates and discusses an assemblage of clay tobacco pipes excavated from Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon. Two main phases of pipe deposition are represented, the first associated with building works at the castle in about 1600 and the second associated with its abandonment and partial demolition c1680-1720. The early group is particularly important since it includes one of the largest groups of very early pipes, typologically dating from c1580-1610, ever to have been excavated in Britain. These represent consumption of a newly arrived luxury product in a high status household and provide important information about the production and distribution of pipes at this date. Regional styles of pipe, most likely produced in the Plymouth area, are identified and the early introduction of pipe making reflects the early New World contacts that this part of the country enjoyed. The pipes from this site reflect trade, social status and the introduction of new goods to England during the Tudor and Stuart periods and provide a material culture reference point of regional and national importance.