This afternoon

[scara]

Out for a bit this afternoon, nothing really of note apart from the heat haze coming off of the ground   and the sun burning the top of my head.
However one of the signals when turning the soil I thought I had unearthed a clay pipe as well, but this was the signal, this is something I have never found before a pewter pipe bowl ,it is quite brittle and damaged but nicely patterned.
Second item I am assuming is some form of decorative piece ?, again made from I think pewter.

[jayhay69]

ive seen those pipe bowls before but cant remember where

[Val Beechey]

Looks like an old Xmas tree lantern. Modern ones have glass inserts and a little light inside. That one might have been painted.
Odd but interesting find.

[congerman]

interesting finds well saved

[dingdong]

Very different finds indeed,thanks for showing..👍

[ancientpat]

I build model boats and the one item looks like the lanterns on the stern of a model galleon.

                                                                         Pat.

[scara]

Pat

That would sort of make sense, the bottom of it does have a rusted away fitting, it would be a big model mind. It came from a field where I have had a couple of medieval pieces, but main finds on there coin wise are all young head Victoria coins, strangely nothing later than this though.

[hotmill]

Think the bowl thing is part of a candle snuffer, handle part missing.

[Dungbeetle]

The " pipe bowl " is unusual but I don't think it's for smoking tobacco as you wouldn't be able to pick it and the smoke would sear your lungs, perhaps a toy one for budding  young smokers !! Just like we had sweet cigarettes when I was a kid.

[wagis]

 Oh come on Chris I can't imagine you remembering been a kid it was that long ago lol

[Dungbeetle]

Oh come on Chris I can't imagine you remembering been a kid it was that long ago lol

I'm glad you're not playing out on Sunday George   

[hotmill]

Oh come on Chris I can't imagine you remembering been a kid it was that long ago lol

He was 11 years old before Tobacco came to this country George 

[jimjoiner]

Nice finds. Very interesting.

[scara]

found a very similar recorded one.


Cast pewter pipe bowl, 1700-1900.

The bowl is sub-conical with a pattern of raised dots on the lower half of the bowl, separated from the upper half of the bowl with an arched motif. The top half of the bowl is plain.



Agree with Chris, the tobacco would certainly generate some heat through the stem hole, it would be like breathing fire

[Dungbeetle]

Oh come on Chris I can't imagine you remembering been a kid it was that long ago lol

He was 11 years old before Tobacco came to this country George 

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