Smoking Pipe Bowl (VCU_3D_5022)

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The Royal Coat of Arms of Britain is prominently displayed on this white clay smoking pipe bowl fragment, recovered from the shipwrecked vessel Betsy, anchored in the York River off the coast of Yorktown, Virginia. The Betsy was one of several vessels intentionally sunk by the British in 1781 as part of a deliberate scuttling operation. Further details on the excavation process can be found in John Broadwater's 1992 publication "Shipwreck in a Swimming Pool: An Assessment of the Methodology and Technology Utilized on the Yorktown Shipwreck Archaeological Project" published in Historical Archaeology, volume 26 issue 4, pages 26-46. The artifact was digitally reconstructed using a 3D Go!Scan 50 at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources' archaeological curation facility in Richmond, Virginia. This model is made available courtesy of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, which has granted permission for non-commercial educational use.