A hollow length of bone or horn—typically from sheep, bullock, or stag—scraped smooth and stoppered at the narrow end with a cork or wooden plug. Horners work raw horn into simple pipes and signaling instruments; shepherds carve bone offcuts into rough whistles for calling dogs and sheep. The reedy, piercing voice carries far across open moorland.
Bone/Horn
Hollow bone-horn pipe stoppered with cork; reedy piercing voice carries across moorland.