The Development of the Tobacco Pipe Kiln in the British Isles

Allan Peacey

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Part One: Introduction and Methodology

• 1. The Introduction of Tobacco and Tobacco Pipes to the British Isles
  • 1.1 Europeans and Tobacco
  • 1.2 The First English Tobacco Pipes
  • 1.3 The Earliest Scottish and Irish Tobacco Pipes
  • 1.4 Clay Pipe Kilns
• 2. The History of Clay Tobacco Pipe Kiln Studies
  • 2.1 The Litchfield Kiln
  • 2.2 Broseley
  • 2.3 Early Twentieth-Century Discoveries
  • 2.4 The 1960s
  • 2.5 The 1970s
  • 2.6 The 1980s
  • 2.7 The Current State of Knowledge
• 3. Objectives and Problems
  • 3.1 Objectives
  • 3.2 Problems: Paucity of Material
  • 3.3 Problems: Variable Terminology
  • 3.4 Problems: Unidentifiable Material
  • 3.6 The Origins of the Industry
• 4. Methodology: the Tobacco Pipe Kiln Recording System
  • 4.1 Locating Kiln Debris
  • 4.2 Recording Procedures
  • 4.3 Contemporary Descriptions

Part Two: Archaeological Evidence

• 5. The Archaeological Evidence for the use of Muffles in Pipe Kilns
  • 5.1 Seventeenth-Century Muffles
  • 5.2 Eighteenth-century Muffle Developments
  • 5.3 Nineteenth-Century Muffle Developments
  • 5.4 Pipe Bowls in Muffles
• 6. The Archaeological Evidence for Pipe Kiln Furniture
  • 6.1 Furniture typologies.
  • 6.2 Saggars
  • 6.3 Bats.
• 7. The furniture supplements, miscellany and waste
  • 7.1 Furniture Supplements
  • 7.2 Miscellany
  • 7.3 Waste
• 8. The Ground plan
• 9. Pipe kiln superstructures
  • 9.1 Existing Superstructures
  • 9.2 Planning Applications
  • 9.3 Photographs and Prints

Part Three: Reconstruction and Interpretation

• 10 The evidence from contemporary literature
  • 10.1 English Encyclopaedias
  • 10.2 Other Sources
• 11 Discussion
  • 11.1 Evaluation of the Evidence
  • 11.2 Possible Origins of the Industry
  • 11.3 Future Work
• 12 Conclusion
  • 12.1 Muffles
  • 12.2 Furniture
  • 12.3 Furniture supplement
  • 12.4 Miscellany and waste
  • 12.5 Ground plans
  • 12.6 Superstructures

Part Four: Data and Indices

• The Watkinson "Journal"
• New Evidence for the Dating of the Robinson Account
• Catalogue
• Glossaries
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Location of Excavated Pipe Kilns (imagemap)
• Time-line (Chronological index)