{"id":"DEKONING2011-001","label":"Groot Olmen antler snorrebot","people_or_site":"Groot Olmen early-medieval settlement, vindplaats 3, trench 1, feature S108 (=135), find 143; Bloemendaal/Overveen","country_current":"Netherlands","historic_region":"Zuid-Kennemerland dunes / North Holland","macroregion":"Europe / Low Countries","local_name":"snorrebot","source_term":"snorrebot (soort amulet of stuk speelgoed)","source_language":"Dutch","object_description":"Worked flat fragment of red-deer antler (Cervus elaphus), greatest length 93 mm, weight 13.5 g; one end pierced by an eye, the opposite end flattened to a chisel-like edge. The report records no clear traces of use or wear.","function_summary":"Possibly an amulet or a children's humming toy.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"dekoning2011_groot_olmen_vnr143","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://collectie.huisvanhilde.nl/pdf/Groot%20Olmen%20laatste%20versie.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 364, Afb. 13.15; context table printed p. 575","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Centroid of the four Rijksdriehoek research-area coordinates printed in the report colophon (x 99.650-100.200, y 492.800-493.200), converted to WGS84; a dune research-area anchor in Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland, not a trench or feature coordinate.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A hand-length strip of red-deer antler emerged from a rubbish layer behind the Kennemerland coast, in an early-medieval settlement later swallowed by drifting dune sand. One end is pierced, the other sharpened like a chisel: either an amulet or a children's humming toy — the Dutch snorrebot, or 'whirring bone.'","pull_quote":"Bij een snorrebot werd door de doorboring een touw geknoopt en werd het geheel boven het hoofd rondgeslingerd. Doordat het snorrebot tijdens het slingeren om zijn as draaide, ontstond een snorrend of zoemend geluid.","pull_quote_translation":"For a snorrebot, a cord was knotted through the perforation and the whole was whirled around above the head. Because the snorrebot turned on its axis as it was swung, a whirring or humming sound arose.","pull_quote_cite":"De Vries in de Koning 2011:364","term_gloss":"snorrebot: Dutch for a 'whirring bone,' a cord-swung humming toy.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 475–600 AD","date_qualification":"Feature S108 (=135) context date; object not directly dated.","date_basis":"excavated_context","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"dekoning2011_groot_olmen_vnr143, De Vries in de Koning 2011 p. 364 fig. 13.15; context table p. 575","sources":[{"citation":"Lisette de Vries, 'Botten in het zand: de dierlijke botresten', in Jan de Koning (ed.), Onder het stuifzand: Overstoven vroegmiddeleeuwse nederzettingen bij Bloemendaal (5e-9e eeuw) (Zaandijk: Uitgeverij Batenburg, 2011), p. 364, afb. 13.15","url":"https://collectie.huisvanhilde.nl/pdf/Groot%20Olmen%20laatste%20versie.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250531155706/https://collectie.huisvanhilde.nl/pdf/Groot%20Olmen%20laatste%20versie.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Lisette de Vries, 'Botten in het zand: de dierlijke botresten', in Jan de Koning (ed.), Onder het stuifzand: Overstoven vroegmiddeleeuwse nederzettingen bij Bloemendaal (5e-9e eeuw) (Zaandijk: Uitgeverij Batenburg, 2011), p. 364, afb. 13.15","source_display":"Lisette de Vries, 'Botten in het zand: de dierlijke botresten', in Jan de Koning (ed.), Onder het stuifzand: Overstoven vroegmiddeleeuwse nederzettingen bij Bloemendaal (5e-9e eeuw) (Zaandijk: Uitgeverij Batenburg, 2011), p. 364, afb. 13.15","date_citation_display":"De Vries in de Koning 2011 p. 364 fig. 13.15; context table p. 575","object_display":"Worked flat fragment of red-deer antler (Cervus elaphus), greatest length 93 mm, weight 13.5 g; one end pierced by an eye, the opposite end flattened to a chisel-like edge. The report records no clear traces of use or wear.","function_display":"Possibly an amulet or a children's humming toy.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"groot olmen","display_name":"Groot Olmen antler snorrebot","image":{"full":"assets/objects/DEKONING2011-001_groot_olmen_find143.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/DEKONING2011-001_groot_olmen_find143_thumb.jpg","alt":"Rough reddish-brown antler blade, find 143 from Groot Olmen, with a large hole near its rounded end and a squared opposite end.","credit":"Photo Lisette de Vries, in Jan de Koning (ed.), Onder het stuifzand (2011), afb. 13.15","license":"No open license stated","source_page":"https://www.archeologieinnederland.nl/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The perforated antler blade, find 143, from Groot Olmen."},"slug":"dekoning2011-001-groot-olmen-early-medieval-settlement-vindplaats-3-trench-1-feature-s108"}