After the 1640s, pipe fragments have been found that feature the British crown, coats of arms, or the initials of the pipe maker. Some pipe makers include a white infill in their pipes. Archaeological ...

A group of researchers in Co Sligo carried out an excavation of the 17th-century fort where they uncovered items that helped ...

Knockcroghery in County Roscommon was once home to a thriving clay pipe industry. ... Pipe Smoking Contest 1963. Entertainment. Ballaghaderreen Roscommon 1977. Lifestyle. Castlerea Roscommon 1975.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. ROCKINGHAM — Hand-cut square nails and small fragments from 18th century clay smoking pipes are the biggest clues found so far during a recent ...

Various materials were used to make mid-millennium pipes, including chalk and even iron, but those were supplanted by meerschaum, a soft clay, in the early 18th century.

“And also we’re getting tantalising glimpses of the archaeology from earlier periods, again clay tobacco pipes and fragments of pottery from England that date back to the 17th century.

At one time, Broseley was the centre of the clay tobacco pipe making industry, and its products were exported across the world. "Broseley has a long history of making clay tobacco pipes, partly ...

A former tobacco pipe factory in Glasgow is to receive more than £1.6 million in funding to enable it to open as a ... The Pipe Factory is Scotland’s last remaining clay smoking pipe factory.

Sharing that they sold clay pipes at the Cahokia Mounds, Consuelos disclosed that he purchased one with his “me money.” “I brought it home, I hid it in the garage,” he explained. “I must ...

Staff at the 18th-century fort and fur-trading village on the Straits of Mackinac said a fragment of a white clay smoking pipe bowl was recently found in the cellar of the fort’s excavation site ...