{"id":"LUND1998-001","label":"Tuv Saltstraumen shale bullroarer","people_or_site":"Tuv at Saltstraumen, Bodø Municipality","country_current":"Norway","historic_region":"Nordland / Saltstraumen","macroregion":"Europe / Northern Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer (?) / shale propeller blade","source_language":"English","object_description":"Ts 9680a: a reddish-brown propeller-blade of polished red shale, 6.4 x 2.7 cm, 2-4 mm thick, 9 g, with three notches at one end; the notches support a half-hitch cord reconstruction, and replicas made a strong shrill sound.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"lund1998_scandinavia","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?file=1&id=4791","page_or_plate":"Lund 1998 pp. 19-20; figs. 2-3; EMAP p. 30 / Fig. 3; Bjerck 2010 | Bjerck fig. 3; Ts 9680a","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"representative on-land anchor at Tuv at Saltstraumen, Bodø Municipality (regional coordinate fell just offshore of the rendered coastline); not an exact findspot","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the spring of 1991, excavators at Tuv on the Saltstraumen tidal strait in Bodø municipality, northern Norway, lifted from a Stone Age cultural layer a reddish-brown shale object the size of a little propeller blade: 6.4 cm long, 2.7 cm wide, 9 grams, with three notches cut into one end. Beside it lay a greyish-green shale spearhead, and charcoal from the settlement layer was later dated to 3040–2620 BC. The field archaeologist in charge, Hein Bjartmann Bjerck, first wondered whether it was a knife blade or a piece of jewellery, then settled on the idea that it was a bullroarer — which would make it unique of its kind in Norway. He fastened a fishing line and swung it: \"It was a fantastic experience to hear the shrill, powerful sound that was made,\" he wrote to the music archaeologist Cajsa Lund, who reported the find. Lund judged the interpretation plausible but refused to let the noise settle the matter, noting that a ruler, a key, a spoon-bait or an empty yoghurt container can all be made to whirr without any of them being a bullroarer.","pull_quote":"Jeg måtte stanse og starte på nytt, mer flabring ... men plutselig falt (gudskjelov) brummeren inn i balansert rotasjon og hugg i med sine mollstemte, langstrakte og skjærende hvin, som bølget frem og tilbake i en sakte puls.","pull_quote_translation":"I had to stop and start again, more flapping … but suddenly (thank God) the bullroarer fell into balanced rotation and struck up its minor-key, long-drawn, piercing whine, surging back and forth in a slow pulse.","pull_quote_cite":"Hein B. Bjerck, «Brummeren fra Tuv», Primitive tider 12 (2010), p. 8, on sounding the original at the findspot in 1991","term_gloss":"","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. 3040–2620 BC","date_qualification":"","date_basis":"stratigraphic","date_confidence":"high","date_citation":"lund1998_scandinavia, Lund 1998 pp. 19-20; figs. 2-3; EMAP p. 30 / Fig. 3; Bjerck 2010 | Bjerck fig. 3; Ts 9680a","sources":[{"citation":"Cajsa S. Lund, “What is Wrong with Music Archaeology?” (1998), pp. 19–20, figs. 2–3","url":"https://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?file=1&id=4791","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013014834/https://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?file=1&id=4791"},{"citation":"Hein B. Bjerck, “Brummeren fra Tuv,” Primitive tider 12 (2010):1–8, fig. 3, Ts 9680a"},{"citation":"Cajsa S. Lund, “The Bullroarer: A Global and Timeless Sound Instrument,” in Music and Sounds in Ancient Europe, EMAP (2020), p. 30, fig. 3"}],"source_citations":"Cajsa S. Lund, “What is Wrong with Music Archaeology?” (1998), pp. 19–20, figs. 2–3; Hein B. Bjerck, “Brummeren fra Tuv,” Primitive tider 12 (2010):1–8, fig. 3, Ts 9680a; Cajsa S. Lund, “The Bullroarer: A Global and Timeless Sound Instrument,” in Music and Sounds in Ancient Europe, EMAP (2020), p. 30, fig. 3","source_display":"Cajsa S. Lund, “What is Wrong with Music Archaeology?” (1998), pp. 19–20, figs. 2–3; Hein B. Bjerck, “Brummeren fra Tuv,” Primitive tider 12 (2010):1–8, fig. 3, Ts 9680a; Cajsa S. Lund, “The Bullroarer: A Global and Timeless Sound Instrument,” in Music and Sounds in Ancient Europe, EMAP (2020), p. 30, fig. 3","date_citation_display":"Lund 1998 pp. 19-20; figs. 2-3; EMAP p. 30 / Fig. 3; Bjerck 2010 | Bjerck fig. 3; Ts 9680a","object_display":"Ts 9680a: a reddish-brown propeller-blade of polished red shale, 6.4 x 2.7 cm, 2-4 mm thick, 9 g, with three notches at one end; the notches support a half-hitch cord reconstruction, and replicas made a strong shrill sound.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tuv saltstraumen","display_name":"Tuv Saltstraumen shale bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LUND1998-001_lund1998_fig2.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LUND1998-001_lund1998_fig2_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Tuv shale bullroarer at right beside its nearby shale spearhead, photographed lying diagonally in rough gravel at Saltstraumen, Norway.","credit":"Photo H. Bjerck, in Cajsa S. Lund, 'What is wrong with music archaeology?' (1998), fig. 2","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://popups.uliege.be/2034-6190/index.php?id=4791","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Tuv shale bullroarer (right) beside the shale spearhead found near it. Photo H. Bjerck."},"slug":"lund1998-001-tuv-at-saltstraumen-bod-municipality"}