Record ID: LON-D7DAF4
Object type: WIRE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy wire-work ornament probably dating 16th - 17th century. This object is made from two types of wire, one of a very fine gauge and one of a thicker gauge. The object is bent back on itself, if it were laid flat the shape is similar to that of an oak leaf created from the thicker gauge of wire. At the bottom of the leaf shape the two strands of the wire are twisted 2-3 times. The finer gauge of wire is tightly coiled and is irregularly wrapped around the frame of the leaf shape infilling it. It is unclear if this object is complete or a fragment, the end…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd December 2015
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Record ID: LON-804AD1
Object type: WINDOW
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval iron window frame dating to the early 17th century. The frame comprises an oval frame with two curved corners and one angled corner, the final corner is broken and the finder has repaired with black electrical tape. The frame is made from a strip of iron with a rectangular cross section. There is a cylindrical hinge projecting from one of the long sides of the frame located approximately one third along the length. One the opposing long side there is an ornate plate, supporting the catch mechanism, projecting internally to the frame. The catch comprises three elements:…
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2015
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Record ID: LON-5F4D91
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval pottery base from a German Whiteware: Polychrome bird whistle (1575-1625). The fabric is fine buff with a glossy brown, green and yellow lead-glaze, usually with the brown glaze representing the wings and eyes which are further accentuated by scored outlines. Only the base of the whistle is present in this case but originally the body of the bird would have been in the form of a small splayed footed pot with the head and whistle-tube applied. The whistle outlet is through the top of the head. Dimensions: diameter: 24.10mm; weight: 6.55g. Reference: Hurst, J. G., Neal, …
Created on: Monday 29th October 2007
Last updated: Friday 9th October 2020
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Record ID: LON-0E27D6
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead alloy incomplete whistle dating c. 1600 - 1800. The spherical sound box and part of the pipe are present; the whistle is broken across the D-shaped perforation in the upper section of the pipe and the mouth-piece is missing. The sound box has a circular sound hole and a suspension loop projecting from the end. There are seams along the sides from the casting and a circumferential rib around the midline. The outer surface has an elaborate raised floral decoration consisting of lines and pellets. The pattern is symmetrical and repeated on both hemispheres. A c…
Created on: Sunday 20th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2013
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Record ID: LON-996CA0
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead alloy fragment of a boatswain's (bosun) whistle (17th century). The hollow fragment is spherical with a ridged crest and line of pellets on each side of the ridge. The broken edges indicated where this fragment fitted on top of the body of the whistle and part of the crest is missing. Dimensions: diameter: 14.28mm; length: 19.75mm; weight: 6.32g. Identification and dating by Tony Pilson and Ian Smith based on foreshore context.
Created on: Friday 25th July 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2013
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Record ID: LON-721393
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval – Post Medieval lead alloy incomplete whistle, probably a pilgrims’ whistle (13th - 17th century). This is the mouthpiece; the hollow bulb is missing. The mouthpiece is cylindrical narrowing the end to which the bulb would have attached. The surface is covered with a repeated cast motif of two adjoining ovals with pellets and hatched lines within. There is one complete and one incomplete cast loops projecting from the upper surface. These loops are also decoratively cast with a twisted rope design and a border of pellets. They may have been used for suspension. …
Created on: Monday 4th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-721707
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval – Post Medieval lead alloy incomplete whistle, probably a pilgrims’ whistle (13th - 17th century). This is the mouthpiece; the hollow bulb is missing. The mouthpiece is cylindrical narrowing the end to which the bulb would have attached. The surface is covered with a repeated cast motif of two adjoining ovals with pellets and hatched lines within. There is one complete and one incomplete cast loops projecting from the upper surface. These loops are also decoratively cast with a twisted rope design and a border of pellets. They may have been used for suspension. …
Created on: Monday 4th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-4B1C43
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Medieval - early Post Medieval pottery incomplete whistle of Low Countries White Ware with green glaze dating 1480-1650. The whistle is the characteristic biconical shape with flaring foot and slightly flaring rim and tubular mouthpiece projecting from the shoulder. The fabric is a fine buff-grey with a mid green glaze covering the majority of the surface. There are a couple of small areas without a glaze, one of which appears to be where the whistle was abutting another vessel when stacked in the kiln. There is some damage to the foot, rim and end of the mouthpiece. …
Created on: Wednesday 6th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-D497D6
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Medieval - early Post Medieval pottery incomplete whistle of Low Countries White Ware with green glaze dating 1480-1650. The whistle is the characteristic biconical shape with flaring foot and slightly flaring rim and tubular mouthpiece projecting from the shoulder (broken and missing). The fabric is a fine buff-grey with a mid green glaze covering the majority of the surface. There are a couple of small areas without a glaze, one of which appears to be where the whistle was abutting another vessel when stacked in the kiln. There is some damage to the foot of the whistle. Dim…
Created on: Friday 12th November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
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Record ID: LON-B9F144
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead alloy whistle probably dating 16th - 17th century. This whistle has been cast in a two-part mould, there are casting seams extending up each side of the whistle. It is tubular with one end open and one end closed with a separate end cap. The whistle expands from the narrow open mouth end to the closed end. There is a D-shaped hole cut out of the upper surface to create the sound. There is a decorative transverse ridge running around the mid-point of the whistle. This whistle is a simpler form of this elaborate whistle recorded on the PAS database: LON-257…
Created on: Thursday 9th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
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Record ID: LON-200077
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval silver whistle probably dating to the 17th century. This whistle has been constructed from three pieces of sheet silver. The first piece has been rolled to form a tapering cylinder and shaped to form a D-shaped mouthpiece. The second piece is circular and forms a domed end cap to close the open end opposite the mouthpiece. The third piece sits internally running from the mouthpiece to the front edge of the D-shaped sound hole that has been cut away in the upper surface of the whistle. Directly underneath the sound hole on the lower surface of the whistle there is a cir…
Created on: Tuesday 14th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
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Record ID: LON-940779
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval lead alloy incomplete boatswain's (bosun) whistle, dating to the 17th century. The gun and keel of the whistle remain, the gun being cylindrical and tapering towards the buoy, it is now flattened. The gun is decorated with a cast geometric pattern, near the mouthpiece ring and dot motifs are arranged in a cross pattern and then there a rows of pellets and lines with transverse lines forming borders between the different patterns. The keel consists of a scrolling design decorated with pellets. The buoy is broken and missing. No exact parallels have been found but sim…
Created on: Wednesday 16th September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 26th November 2015
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Record ID: LON-00A007
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bone incomplete whistle of uncertain date. This musical instrument has been made from a long bone that is shaped to have a rectangular cross-section with chamfered corners. At one end the lower edge is cut diagonally creating the mouth piece and there is a D-shaped blow-hole just above. The whistle is broken across the opposite end, there is a surviving double band of circumferential grooves just before the broken edge. At the broken end the shaft of the whistle is infilled with another material. At the mouthpiece there is a fipple, made from a different material. Dimensions…
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 7th October 2015
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Record ID: LON-2570B6
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval lead alloy whistle, dating late 16th - early 17th century. The whistle has a central tube with aperture which has been squashed shut. The central tube is conical, open at one end and has a closed, rounded end at the other. There are also the remains of decorative elements projecting from each side. These may be the remains of a double-headed bird of prey which flanks both sides. The tube is also decorated with moulded feather motifs and two egg and dart friezes around the top. On the back is the fragment of a ring that was soldered on. This ring may …
Created on: Monday 20th August 2012
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2012
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Record ID: LON-5E53D4
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval – Post Medieval stone whetstone (AD 1400 – 1750). The stone is an irregular rectangle in plan with both the large surfaces showing heavy polishing through use. There are transverse irregular grooves cutting across the polished surfaces. These may be scars caused by testing the sharpness of the blades, or caused by flaws in the stone, or they may indicate the stone was reused for another function after its use as a whetstone. The edges are very abraded which probably occurred post deposition. Along one side there is a large, shallow, vertical groove; this possible ac…
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Putney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-E47073
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval - Post Medieval stone object probably a whetstone (AD1500-1700). The stone object is rectangular and made from oolitic limestone, it has very abraded surfaces edges. Dimensions: length: 82.26mm; width: 16.47mm; thickness: 10.28mm; weight: 26.64g.
Created on: Wednesday 18th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southwark', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-FC5492
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone incomplete whetstone of uncertain date, probably late Early Medieval - early Post Medieval. This whetstone is rectangular in shape, flaring towards one end (from 20.00mm to 26.53mm), and wedge-shaped in profile. The other end is broken and missing. One of the sides has been deliberately scored with very regular lozenge-shaped cross-hatching; the other side has the natural striations of the stone. Hazel Forsyth notes that it is very difficult to date this object with any degree of accuracy. Dimensions: length: 85.39mm; width: 26.53mm; thickness: 14.58mm; weight: 46.36…
Created on: Monday 7th February 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-721A34
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval – Modern stone whetstone (16th – 19th century). The whetstone has a D-shaped cross-section and there is a circular perforation just off-centre in the upper third of the object. Part of the flat long surface is missing and one end is damaged. There is no evidence of use-wear polishing but this may have been lost with the damage to the surface, or the object was never used. Dimensions: length: 195.46mm; width: 59.77mm; thickness: 31.16mm
Created on: Monday 4th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-02C8E7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A (probably) Medieval – Post Medieval lead alloy object, probably a weight, possibly a lead sinker. The object is made from a strip of lead alloy one end is pointed and the other end has a central notch creating a V-shaped profile. Just below the notch there is a square perforation for a nail with a square sectioned shank. The front surface is decorated with a moulded repeated pattern of a V with internal cross-hatching. There are two complete central decorative ‘V’s and two incomplete; one on each end. Dimensions: length: 29.65mm; width: 7.96mm; thickness: 3.74mm; weight:…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-FFBCD1
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy weight (AD43-410). This is probably a disc-shaped weight. Both sides have the same pattern of a central stamped ‘sun’ motif with radiating arms and four punched dots. Similar weights are illustrated in Crummy (1995:101nos 2511 and 2512). No 2511 has two punched dots in a similar style to this example. Crummy suggests this weight is possibly for two scruples (scripula), there were 24 scruples to the Roman ounce. It weighs 1.9g. Dimensions: Diameter: 18.07mm; thickness: 3.45mm; weight: 5.84g. Reference: Crummy, N. 1995. The Roman small finds from …
Created on: Monday 9th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hambleden', grid reference and parish protected.