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WHISTLE
Unique ID: IOW-8AF4F2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete post-Medieval to Modern tin-alloy (?pewter) 'hawking' whistle (c. 1700-c. 1850).
The main body of the whistle is hollow and tubular in cross-section. It is divided into three sections, a mouth-piece with a sound-hole, a body with a rounded end and a pierced knop for a lanyard.
A circumferential collar divides the mouth-piece from the rounded end. The mouth-piece is semi-circular in cross-section and the sound-hole is semi-circular in plan. Within the whistle there is a rectangular sheet copper-alloy fipple. This extends downwards from the straight edge of the sound-hole to the lower edge of the mouth-piece. The pierced knop is divided from the rounded body by a narrow neck. Along each side of the body of the whistle there is a prominent casting seam.
This dented whistle is dark greyish silver and has buff corrosion deposits. There is no indication of a maker's mark. It still produces a note when blown.
Length: 65.53mm; maximum diameter at collar: 17.63mm. Weight: 24.03g.
Similar whistles have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds: BH-A0DDB1; HESH-51DC42; IOW-0DC634; IOW-B5C501; IOW-C637F7; LEIC-BD9295; LON-8B61C5; SUR-C845C3; SUSS-0C38E3 and SWYOR-5E1DB3.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 65.53 mm
Weight: 24.03 g
Diameter: 17.63 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 13th February 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: IOW2013-2-153
Materials and construction
Primary material: Tin or tin alloy
Secondary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
District: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Isle of Wight
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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