Record ID: IOW-626D36
Object type: WIND INSTRUMENT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver musical wind instrument dating 1724-1725. Treasure case no. 2009 T317 (not Treasure). An incomplete wind instrument made of sheet silver which has been folded to form a truncated cone. The object expands in diameter from the open chamfered mouth-piece towards the end of the object, to which the circular part would have been soldered originally. This circular part has become detached from the rest of the object and was inside the main body when found. The sound-hole is D-shaped in plan. In the lower part of the mouth piece is a soldered sheet silver 'reed' which ex…
Created on: Monday 15th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shorwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-CED3B4
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
The reported object is a small whistle made of silver sheet. It is complete, retaining a small suspension ring (for a ribbon) on its underside. It is plain without maker's mark or decoration, and has a domed end which has been soldered to the pipe. Metal Content Analysis to ascertain the elemental composition of the artefacts was carried out by Mary Davis using a CamScan MaXim 2040 analytical scanning electron microscope (SEM), plus an Oxford Instruments Link Isis energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDX). The object was examined whole within the specimen chamber and analysed for 100…
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2007
Last updated: Friday 16th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Radnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-E37973
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver whistle of narrow tapering form cut from silver sheet, applied with drilled and cabled bands around the body. Punched decoration of flowerheads and bands of dots across the body. Torn around the mouthpiece. Other end has a punched opening. Small suspension loop.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upchurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-12BE65
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post medieval silver 'bosun's whistle fragment, pipe only. Gilded silver "bosun's" whistle fragment. Slightly tapering sheet tube with two applied double-grooved collars, one at the widest end and one at the centre. The wider half of the tube is decorated with four spiralling grooves giving it a cabled appearance; the remainder of the tube is plain. On the underside of the wider end of the tube is a broken circular loop; a handle would have extended from this loop and been fixed at two other points (indicated by scars) on the narrow half of the tube. A hollow sphere would have been …
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Derbyshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-707DF7
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete post-Medieval silver huntsman's whistle, 16th-early 17th century Treasure case no. 2009 T222. This tubular whistle is made of silver sheet and soldered lengthways along an abutting seam. Two twisted silver wire collars, wound around silver hoops, divide the whistle into three sections. However, the two ends (the open end and the mouth-piece) are missing and have ragged breaks. Close to the open end there is a circumferential cabled rib. Mid-way between the rib and the wire collar a scrolled cartouche contains a mark that may be a maker's mark but is unidentifiable due to…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shalfleet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C2EE32
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 16th century silver huntman's whistle, now full of soil and incomplete and damaged at the mouth piece end. This whistle is cut from silver sheet and soldered; it is cylindrical and increases in diameter from the mouth-piece to the open end. Two wire collars divide the whistle into three sections; the upper section has a mouth-piece with a damaged sound hole. The central section is decorated with diagonal ribs. The lower section is undecorated but its circular end has an applied rim of filigree wire. There is a damaged suspension loop on the underside of the whistle.
Created on: Thursday 14th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Diss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-FB1264
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver hunting whistle. The fragment comprises the terminal of the cylindrical body, together with a pair of twisted silver wire bands. The whistle has been cut from silver sheet and soldered. The body retains the edge of the decorated section which comprises punched floral or foliate ornament.
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 27th January 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F2F1A8
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flask-shaped whistle, now squashed flat, formed from silver sheet. A suspension ring is engaged with a loop which projects from the underside. The broadest part is encircled by two bands of rather crude grooved and ribbed decoration. A maker's stamp, GU , on the underside of the mouthpiece is to be read with the mouthpiece uppermost. Date: 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Thursday 10th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-B65D91
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver whistle of Post-Medieval, sixteenth century date (AD 1500 - AD 1600) Length: 28.8mm; weight: 2.03g. Treasure case no. 2007 T472 (disclaimed). The end opposite the mouth-piece is incomplete due to an old break. The surviving part is made of three silver-sheet components which were soldered together. The main component, the tubular body, is misshapen and has a triangular opening (known as the 'lip') at the top and a longitudinal joining seam on the underside which has sprung apart. This seam abuts a fipple which has also sprung apart from the main body along one of …
Created on: Saturday 26th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Shorwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A35180
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A machine made silver whistle, pressed from a sheet of silver. Georgian or Victorian.
Created on: Wednesday 26th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ebberston', grid reference and parish protected.