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Description: | TREASURE CASE 2014 T196:Incomplete silver whistle of post Medieval date. The whistle has been formed from silver sheet, rolled and soldered together. The whistle has three distinct elements: the mouthpiece, the body, and the open end. These three components are separated by two collars of spiral coiled silver wire with a central core of silver wire of the same thickness. These collars are soldered on to the sheet metal body of the whistle.The mouthpiece is incomplete, having lost most of its silver tubing in antiquity. The central body of the whistle is decorated with a raised curvilinear design of intertwined tendrils covering one half and a design of alternating small and large raised plain ovals set within raised arch outlines running around the remaining half of the whistle's body. A rough sub-rectangular patch is evident approximately halfway along the soldered seam of this central section; this is all that remains of the attachment loop which would have been soldered to this point and which is known from more complete examples. The final third of the whistle consists of a plain and flattened larger tubular section with a fine collar around the terminal end comprising of two tightly plyed silver wires. The end of the tubular section is squashed flat with eight triangular projections framing the opening.There is a possible maker's mark on this final third of the tubular section which although too worn to clearly decipher does broadly correlate to the outline of a thistle shape.Such items are often termed hunting, hawking or huntsmen's whistles. For a more complete example of this type of whistle which has already been reported under the Treasure Act see 2005 T96 found on the Isle of Wight. See also the more recent case of 2010 T127, found in East Yorkshire.Dimensions: 47.1mm long, 10.9mm wide at the flattened end, central tubular shaft tapers from 7.5mm to 5.6mm diameter (excluding coiled wire decoration at either end); sheet metal c.2mm thick, weight: 5.3g.
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