THE DATING OF CLAY-PIPES
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1. Is it a stem only (or portion of a stem) or bowl only, or are both
bowl and stem available in part or complete?
Stem only (or part) available: Bowl only, or sufficient for shape
generally, little information of to be recognisable: this is much
value for dating can be obtained more informative than the stem
from the stem alone, but let us (see paras. 6, et seq).
get what we can (see paras. 2, 3,
4, and 5) and then turn to the Bowl and Stem: paras. 2, et seq.
bowl, if any.