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told me lie Lad found these pipe bowls with his own hands, when 

 it was impossible that those of any other person could have placed 

 them there in recent times. Iron pipes, some with lids, have 

 been dug up in Switzerland, associated with objects of bronze. 

 Of course, though I began by calling them "Tobacco pipes," I 

 did not mean that Tobacco was smoked in them — other herbs 

 might have been used, as coltsfoot is still occasionally in some 

 out-of-the-way places. AVith regard to the typical form of the 

 bowls, dug or ploiighed up in such abundance in the vicinity 

 of large English towns, for example, Stafford, Grloucester, 

 Ludlow, and Broseley, still famous for their manufacture ; 

 I shall venture to call them " Gasterpods, " from their 

 broad foot, an allusion which I think my friend. Professor 

 Buckman, at whose instance I have thrown together these few 

 notes, will understand at once. Thei>e pipes we can understand 

 well enough, for the marks of the makers are impressed on the 

 foot, in relief generally, more rarely incised, occasionally with a 

 date, always of the 17th centiuy or later. These bowls are of 

 more convenient form, and tobacco itself was, no doubt, smoked 

 in them. It is hardly possible to smoke one of the type I have 

 first mentioned with any degree of comfort, though I have often 

 tried the experiment. The late E. Thursfield, Esq., of Broseley, 

 had a fine collection of old pipes from Shi'opshire ; I also had 

 another, still larger, from various parts of England. Both are 

 now in the possession of W. Bragge, Esq.', the greatest collector 

 of these objects, and the best authority on the subject, with 

 whom I am acquainted. There is a common form of pipe with a 

 long ungainly bowl, never bearing a maker's mark, which I am 

 inclined to think is of Dutch origin, and to have come in with 

 King WiUiam III. 



Note by the Editor. — As I have had great pleasure in sending my 

 kind friend, Mr. Bernhard Smith, collections of ancient pipes both from 

 Gloucestershire and Dorset, as I knew him to be interested in them, I pre- 

 ferred a request that he should give me a few notes upon them for our 

 Proceedings, and hence the preceding remarks. They are sufficient to show 

 the interest attached to the subject. All over our farm, on the sui-face, and 



