{"id":"LEEK2023-001","label":"Schagen two-hole snorrebot","people_or_site":"Nes 30, Schagen (Archeologie West-Friesland project 520, pit S1)","country_current":"Netherlands","historic_region":"North Holland / Schagen","macroregion":"Europe / Low Countries","local_name":"snorrebot","source_term":"snorrebot","source_language":"nl","object_description":"A reused cattle rib from pit S1 at Nes 30, Schagen, drilled with a hole at each end: one complete round perforation near the surviving end, the other broken and irregular, recorded by the excavators as a second drilled hole.","function_summary":"Possibly a cord-swung humming toy.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"leek_stellingwerf_2023_schagen_nes30_v4o01","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://archeologiewestfriesland.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AWF_WAR_177_Schagen_Nes30_website.pdf","page_or_plate":"fig. 59.1","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Town-centre anchor for Schagen, North Holland; a town-level approximation, not a plot-level or pit-level coordinate for the Nes 30 plot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Someone in early-seventeenth-century Schagen drilled both ends of a cattle rib and left it in a pit with a coin and a conical spindle whorl. The excavators wondered whether it was a snorrebot — a Dutch 'whirring bone' swung on a cord — but ordinary examples have only one hole. One perforation could have held the cord; the second remains unexplained.","pull_quote":"Mogelijk is de rib gebruikt als snorrebot, hoewel deze meestal slechts één gat hebben.","pull_quote_translation":"The rib may have been used as a snorrebot, although these usually have only one hole.","pull_quote_cite":"Leek and Stellingwerf 2023, pp. 63-64","term_gloss":"snorrebot: Dutch for a 'whirring bone,' normally a single-holed blade swung on a cord.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 1600–1625 AD","date_qualification":"Pit S1 context; object undated.","date_basis":"excavated_context","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"leek_stellingwerf_2023_schagen_nes30_v4o01, pp. 63–64 fig. 59.1","sources":[{"citation":"J. Leek, with W. Stellingwerf, Over dammen en dijken, kreken en kwelders: Archeologisch onderzoek op het perceel Nes 30 in Schagen, gemeente Schagen, West-Friese Archeologische Rapporten 177 (Hoorn: Archeologie West-Friesland, 2023), pp. 63-64, fig. 59.1, catalogue V4-O01","url":"https://archeologiewestfriesland.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AWF_WAR_177_Schagen_Nes30_website.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013033352/https://archeologiewestfriesland.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AWF_WAR_177_Schagen_Nes30_website.pdf"}],"source_citations":"J. Leek, with W. Stellingwerf, Over dammen en dijken, kreken en kwelders: Archeologisch onderzoek op het perceel Nes 30 in Schagen, gemeente Schagen, West-Friese Archeologische Rapporten 177 (Hoorn: Archeologie West-Friesland, 2023), pp. 63-64, fig. 59.1, catalogue V4-O01","source_display":"J. Leek, with W. Stellingwerf, Over dammen en dijken, kreken en kwelders: Archeologisch onderzoek op het perceel Nes 30 in Schagen, gemeente Schagen, West-Friese Archeologische Rapporten 177 (Hoorn: Archeologie West-Friesland, 2023), pp. 63-64, fig. 59.1, catalogue V4-O01","date_citation_display":"Leek Stellingwerf 2023 Schagen nes30 v4o01, pp. 63–64 fig. 59.1","object_display":"A reused cattle rib from pit S1 at Nes 30, Schagen, drilled with a hole at each end: one complete round perforation near the surviving end, the other broken and irregular, recorded by the excavators as a second drilled hole.","function_display":"Possibly a cord-swung humming toy.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"nes","display_name":"Schagen two-hole snorrebot","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LEEK2023-001_leek2023_fig59_nes30.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LEEK2023-001_leek2023_fig59_nes30_thumb.jpg","alt":"Cattle-rib snorrebot from Nes 30, Schagen, with one round perforation visible near its left end and a rough broken edge at the right.","credit":"J. Leek, with W. Stellingwerf, West-Friese Archeologische Rapporten 177 (Archeologie West-Friesland, 2023), fig. 59.1","license":"Archeologie West-Friesland open publication — internal review capture; confirm reuse terms before publication","source_page":"https://archeologiewestfriesland.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AWF_WAR_177_Schagen_Nes30_website.pdf","rehosted":false,"representative":false,"caption":"Two-hole cattle-rib snorrebot from a pit at Nes 30, Schagen."},"slug":"leek2023-001-nes-30-schagen-archeologie-west-friesland-project-520-pit-s1"}