{"id":"HAKVOORT2013-001","label":"Middenbeemster Keyserkerk bone snorrebot","people_or_site":"Middenbeemster, Keyserkerk cemetery (charnel pit, feature 114)","country_current":"Netherlands","historic_region":"North Holland / Beemster polder","macroregion":"Europe / Low Countries","local_name":"snorrebot","source_term":"snorrebot (zoemhout/snorhout)","source_language":"Dutch","object_description":"Bone blade 13.5 cm long, 2.4-2.8 cm wide, 0.4 cm thick: rounded top with a 0.5 cm cord hole, bevelled sides, five notches of differing depth at the lower end.","function_summary":"A children's toy: swung in a circle on a cord through the terminal hole; airflow spins the blade on its axis for a humming, whirring sound.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"hakvoort_2013_keyserkerk","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://collectie.huisvanhilde.nl/pdf/Middenbeemster_kerkhof_Keyserkerk_AO_DEF.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 66, section 7.1.3, fig. 34","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Centroid of the four RD excavation corners in the report colophon (RD 122872.5/506767.5 -> WGS84); an excavation-area anchor beside the Keyserkerk, not the object's individual findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Five uneven teeth bite into one end of a bone blade found beside the Keyserkerk in the Beemster polder. At the other end a single hole once carried the cord. Swung in a circle, the 13.5-centimetre slat spun on its own axis and gave a humming, whirring voice — a typical children's toy of the Dutch Middle Ages and the centuries after. It surfaced in a charnel pit, among bones cleared from older graves as the churchyard was reworked; the excavators suggest it was first buried with a child.","pull_quote":"Door luchtwervelingen gaat het plaatje om zijn as tollen waarbij het een zoemend of snorrend geluid voortbrengt.","pull_quote_translation":"Air turbulence sets the little plate spinning on its axis, producing a humming or whirring sound.","pull_quote_cite":"Hakvoort, De begravingen bij de Keyserkerk te Middenbeemster (2013), p. 66","term_gloss":"snorrebot = Dutch, 'whirring bone' (snorren, to whirr + bot, bone); the report also gives the synonyms zoemhout and snorhout, 'humming-wood' and 'whirring-wood'.","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":"object","date_display":"c. 1615–1867 AD","date_qualification":"Cemetery horizon; object undated.","date_basis":"site_horizon","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"hakvoort_2013_keyserkerk, pp. 5, 27–29, 66, 86–88; section 7.1.3 fig. 34","sources":[{"citation":"A. Hakvoort, De begravingen bij de Keyserkerk te Middenbeemster (Hollandia reeks 464, 2013), section 7.1.3 and fig. 34; report dataset deposited at DANS, , licensed CC BY 4.0","url":"https://collectie.huisvanhilde.nl/pdf/Middenbeemster_kerkhof_Keyserkerk_AO_DEF.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013012253/https://collectie.huisvanhilde.nl/pdf/Middenbeemster_kerkhof_Keyserkerk_AO_DEF.pdf"}],"source_citations":"A. Hakvoort, De begravingen bij de Keyserkerk te Middenbeemster (Hollandia reeks 464, 2013), section 7.1.3 and fig. 34; report dataset deposited at DANS, , licensed CC BY 4.0","source_display":"A. Hakvoort, De begravingen bij de Keyserkerk te Middenbeemster (Hollandia reeks 464, 2013), section 7.1.3 and fig. 34; report dataset deposited at DANS, , licensed CC BY 4.0","date_citation_display":"Hakvoort 2013 Keyserkerk, pp. 5, 27–29, 66, 86–88; section 7.1.3 fig. 34","object_display":"Bone blade 13.5 cm long, 2.4-2.8 cm wide, 0.4 cm thick: rounded top with a 0.5 cm cord hole, bevelled sides, five notches of differing depth at the lower end.","function_display":"A children's toy: swung in a circle on a cord through the terminal hole; airflow spins the blade on its axis for a humming, whirring sound.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"middenbeemster","display_name":"Middenbeemster Keyserkerk bone snorrebot","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HAKVOORT2013-001_middenbeemster_snorrebot.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAKVOORT2013-001_middenbeemster_snorrebot_thumb.jpg","alt":"The 13.5 cm Keyserkerk bone snorrebot is a long, flat strip with a round hole close to one end, shown above a centimetre scale.","credit":"A. Hakvoort / Hollandia archeologen, De begravingen bij de Keyserkerk te Middenbeemster (2013), fig. 34, via DANS","license":"CC BY 4.0 (DANS dataset 10.17026/DANS-ZA6-RMHP)","source_page":"https://doi.org/10.17026/DANS-ZA6-RMHP","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Keyserkerk bone snorrebot, 13.5 cm long."},"slug":"hakvoort2013-001-middenbeemster-keyserkerk-cemetery-charnel-pit-feature-114"}