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Clay Pipe Base Fragment
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Clay Pipe Base Fragment

Object NameBase Fragment
Mediumclay
ClassificationsArchaeology Excavated
AcquisitionTransferred from Historic Scotland.
LocationView by Appointment
Object numberABDMS034301.1
Keywords
About MeSite number: E34
Site name: Gallowgate Middle School
Context number: 16
Trench number: 1
Phase number: 6
Catalogue number: 662 ('Aberdeen: An In-depth View of the City's Past')

Base fragment with indistinct stamp; probably late 17th century. The stamp may be a 'portcullis' type, such as was produced by Glasgow malers (or the Edinburgh 'castle' type) in the late 17th earnyl 18th centuries.
Passing Clouds Cigarettes Box
W D & H O Wills
1969-1980
Clay Pipe
c. 1870