Chesapeake Pipe Bowls and Stems

Chesapeake Pipe Bowls and Stems

Artifacts

These Chesapeake pipe bowls were found at a site in Westmoreland County on the northern Coastal Plain. Chesapeake pipes have characteristic rouletted decorations that were made by incising the the clay with tools that had rounded pin-like ends. The designs often combined Virginia Indian and European motifs. Chesapeake pipes were produced by Europeans, Virginia Indians, and/or enslaved Africans, and were traded amongst groups during the early seventeenth century. (Photo enhanced)

Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, VA

1600 - 1700 C.E.

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Westmoreland County

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