John Aubrey, in his Natural History Of Wiltshire, written between 1656 and 1691, noted:
“Amesbury is famous for the best tobacco pipes in England; made by … Gauntlet, who markes the heele of them with a gauntlet, whence they are called gauntlet pipes. The clay of which they are made is brought from Chiltern [Chitterne] in this county.â€