{"id":"BERG2018-001","label":"Utrecht Wittevrouwenstraat rib snorrebot pair","people_or_site":"Utrecht, Wittevrouwenstraat 8-10 (cesspit 2O and drainage system 3U)","country_current":"Netherlands","historic_region":"Utrecht / city centre","macroregion":"Europe / Low Countries","local_name":"snorrebot","source_term":"snorrebot","source_language":"Dutch","object_description":"Two rib blades, each with one perforation at an end: a cattle rib, and a cut cattle-or-horse rib.","function_summary":"A children's toy: swung on a cord through the end hole until the blade spins and whirrs.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"berg_2018_wittevrouwenstraat","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://erfgoed.utrecht.nl/fileadmin/uploads/documenten/zz-erfgoed/publicaties/rapporten-archeologie/2018-01-Archeologisch-onderzoeksrapport-wittevrouwenstraat-8-10.pdf","page_or_plate":"pp. 71, 73; figs. 7.2, 7.5","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Centroid of the four RD excavation corners in the report colophon (EPSG:28992 -> WGS84), matching the Wittevrouwenstraat 8-10 street address; one anchor for both finds from the same plot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Twice, centuries apart, a bone whirler was lost on the same Utrecht plot. A cattle rib, pierced at one end, lay in a cesspit whose fill closed before the mid-sixteenth century; a second rib, cut and pierced the same way, sank into the brick rain gutters behind a house lived in from the 1640s until 1914. Children knew what the hole was for: knot in a cord, swing the blade in a circle, and the spinning bone whirrs — faster for a higher note, slower for a lower.","pull_quote":"Het snorrende geluid ontstaat doordat de snorrebot tijdens het slingeren om zijn eigen as draait. Door sneller of langzamer rondslingeren verandert de toonhoogte.","pull_quote_translation":"The whirring sound arises because the snorrebot spins on its own axis as it is swung around. Swinging faster or slower changes the pitch.","pull_quote_cite":"Van den Berg, Wonen aan de Wittevrouwenstraat (2018), p. 71","term_gloss":"snorrebot = Dutch, 'whirring bone' (snorren, to whirr + bot, bone), the standing Dutch name for the whirled blade toy.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"assemblage","date_display":"Before c. 1550 AD; c. 1640–1914 AD","date_qualification":"Two objects; separate contextual deposit ranges, neither a direct object date.","date_basis":"two_stratigraphic_contexts","date_confidence":"high","date_citation":"berg_2018_wittevrouwenstraat, pp. 71, 73; figs. 7.2, 7.5","sources":[{"citation":"G.T.C. van den Berg, Wonen aan de Wittevrouwenstraat: Definitief archeologisch onderzoek aan de Wittevrouwenstraat 8-10, gemeente Utrecht (Basisrapportage Archeologie 58, 2018), pp. 71 and 73, figs. 7.2 and 7.5","url":"https://erfgoed.utrecht.nl/fileadmin/uploads/documenten/zz-erfgoed/publicaties/rapporten-archeologie/2018-01-Archeologisch-onderzoeksrapport-wittevrouwenstraat-8-10.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240617144211/https://erfgoed.utrecht.nl/fileadmin/uploads/documenten/zz-erfgoed/publicaties/rapporten-archeologie/2018-01-Archeologisch-onderzoeksrapport-wittevrouwenstraat-8-10.pdf"}],"source_citations":"G.T.C. van den Berg, Wonen aan de Wittevrouwenstraat: Definitief archeologisch onderzoek aan de Wittevrouwenstraat 8-10, gemeente Utrecht (Basisrapportage Archeologie 58, 2018), pp. 71 and 73, figs. 7.2 and 7.5","source_display":"G.T.C. van den Berg, Wonen aan de Wittevrouwenstraat: Definitief archeologisch onderzoek aan de Wittevrouwenstraat 8-10, gemeente Utrecht (Basisrapportage Archeologie 58, 2018), pp. 71 and 73, figs. 7.2 and 7.5","date_citation_display":"Berg 2018 Wittevrouwenstraat, pp. 71, 73; figs. 7.2, 7.5","object_display":"Two rib blades, each with one perforation at an end: a cattle rib, and a cut cattle-or-horse rib.","function_display":"A children's toy: swung on a cord through the end hole until the blade spins and whirrs.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"utrecht","display_name":"Utrecht Wittevrouwenstraat rib snorrebot pair","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BERG2018-001_utrecht_v105_rib.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BERG2018-001_utrecht_v105_rib_thumb.jpg","alt":"the Utrecht Wittevrouwenstraat cattle-rib snorrebot, a flat blade with a round end-hole above a 0–5 cm scale.","credit":"Gemeente Utrecht, Erfgoed gemeente Utrecht, basisrapportage archeologie 2018-01, fig. 7.2","license":"In copyright — municipal excavation report; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://erfgoed.utrecht.nl/fileadmin/uploads/documenten/zz-erfgoed/publicaties/rapporten-archeologie/2018-01-Archeologie-Wittevrouwenstraat-8-10.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The cattle-rib blade from the Wittevrouwenstraat cesspit, deposited before the mid-sixteenth century.","also":[{"label":"The second blade, find V84-1 (1640/49-1914 drain fill), fig. 7.5","page":"assets/objects/BERG2018-001_utrecht_v84_rib.jpg","credit":"Gemeente Utrecht, basisrapportage archeologie 2018-01, fig. 7.5","license":"In copyright — municipal excavation report; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research"}]},"slug":"berg2018-001-utrecht-wittevrouwenstraat-8-10-cesspit-2o-and-drainage-system-3u"}