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Description: | 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 with central projections along each length of its sides. The field within which this was set in was also decorated, but obscured by wear. Another motif of a sextafoil with a rose in each lobe is slightly visible, but most of this was cut with the silver sheet, leaving only three lobes. A bend in the body has revealed the seams of the silver sheeting, including where these have separated. The open end is also damaged, but mostly remaining. It has been flattened/pinched at the open end. This section does not appear to have been decorated. A maker's mark consisting of a raised P in a shield-shaped stamp is visible, though worn in one quarter. The central section also has a projecting circular hoop near the collar separating it from the mouthpiece. A hoop of silver wire remains with the suspension loop. See also 2005 T96.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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