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.

Record ID: HESH-2422D7
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Report on post-medieval silver whistle from Near Hereford, Herefordshire Fragmentary silver whistle made from silver sheet, broken and flattened at one end. The mouthpiece intact, shaped for blowing, and slit relatively undamaged. Remains of illegible maker's mark just above slit. Raised twisted rib decoration on the body of the whistle and border with stamped flower-heads between incised lines. Solder marks under the slit may indicate there was originally a small handle at this point, as on other reported examples (see below). Compare with a fragmentary whistle, also with…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 26th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Dewchurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F4AC47
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Ball, biconvex with attachements. Projecting seam, broken off at point of attachment, with 8-petal 'rose' motif of applied bent wire. Edit: 23/12/15: This is the bulb from a style of whistle normally called a 'bosun's' whistle.
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingsnorth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-537674
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Hollow-cast element now squashed inwards upon itself, originally of spherical or bulbous form. One side plain, the other with applied flowerhead decoration. Along one edge, an animal with wings, long tail and four legs, its head broken off. Entire surface gilt. 1.7 cm long. It is impossible to discern the original function and appearance of this object. It might possibly be part of a whistle, akin to the whistle from Horsey, Somerset, for which see Treasure Annual Report 2002, no. 125, dated to 15-16th Century. Probably 16th Century. In terms of age and as the object co…
Created on: Wednesday 16th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Riccall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-8ADD43
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver "bosun's" whistle. Slightly tapering sheet tube with two applied transverse double-grooved fillets, one at the widest end and one at the centre; at the narrower end is a hollow cast sphere which has a circular hole (diameter 5mm) cut at the junction with the tube - air blown through the tube would pass over this finger-hole. Around the sphere is an applied flat band decorated with three raised ribs; it runs from the far edge of the finger-hole to the underside of the tube. Flat-sectioned S-shaped handle soldered at two points to the underside of the tube, and also to the inner …
Created on: Friday 18th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-F07E07
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver decorative whistle, spherical body or buoy made of two parts of silver sheet soldered together with a raised rib. Each hemisphere decorated with raised flower-head pattern and central knop. Thin gun of silver with a flange to hold the whistle by. Damaged. Decoration recalls that on 16th Century dress pins and fittings and this is likely to be of that date. Compare a tin whistle of similar form in the NMM, PT 0457, there called a boatswain's call, and six in the MOL from the Thames foreshore. Silver whistles were used as badges of office and for giving signals at sea. Compare al…
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2008
Last updated: Friday 9th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawtry', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-DB1922
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A composite cast silver alloy bead possibly from an item of jewellery or a composite dress ornament / dress fitting. The bead is broadly cylindrical in form tapering to a blunted point at either end. It seems to be formed in two parts and be hollow, the two elements being soldered together at the mid-point with a relatively thick central ridge. Either end is decorated with a raised wire-like design consisting of a flower formed with eight radiating petals. At the centre of the design is a raised boss like knop. A large tare is present on the upper edge of the bead presuma…
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bitterley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-8EB4A3
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances of discovery: Whilst searching with a metal detector Description: Silver hollow cast sphere from a huntsman's whistle. The pea is now missing. Decoration is applied on both sides in the form of a quatrefoil motif with a plain cross running through the centre. Discussion: This fragment was found within very close proximity to the Silver Huntman's whistle found in October 2002 (see 2005 T22; TAR 2995 - 2006), and as such is most likely to be part of the same artefact. Due to its age and precious metal content, this item would qualify as treasure under the Trea…
Created on: Wednesday 17th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-690EA5
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of post-medieval silver whistle, consisting of a hollow tube decorated with relief interlaced circles creating lozenge shapes, each with a raised central square. At one end there is an elaborate collar of rope work passed between three coils of metal (probably cannetille). The fragment was originally thought to date from the fifteenth or early sixteenth century, but subsequent parallels with relief ornament and cannetille (e.g. LIN-403242 and SUR-07B392) have indicated a slightly later date, in the 16th or early 17th centuries.
Created on: Monday 14th December 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wonston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-E5B597
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver huntsman's whistle of 16th century date. The whistle has been cut from silver sheet, rolled and soldered together. The whistle has three distinct elements: the mouthpiece, the body, and the open end. These are separated by discoidal collars soldered on to the body. These collars were made by a length of silver wire through smaller silver wire hoops. clearly visible due to damage in one section of the collar near the open end. The mouthpiece is incomplete, having lost most of its silver tubing in antiquity. The body is decorated with a rose/flower circumscribed by a square wit…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-736C82
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case 2009 T399 Description: Silver whistle, made of thin silver sheet, well-shaped mouthpiece, square opening, tapering to the end which has been broken off. Along the length of the whistle, five projecting flanges, in silver, these with traces of gilding. Dimensions: Length: 57.40mm, Width at mouthpiece: 9.21mm, Width at widest point, including decoration: 15.81mm, Weight: 6.12g Discussion: Date uncertain, but the unusual flanges suggest possibly 16th century date. Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glanvilles Wootton', grid reference and parish protected.