{"id":"MUS2026-167","label":"St Paul's Parish Norwich Buzzer bullroarers","people_or_site":"English folk / Norwich","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Norfolk / Norwich / St Paul's Parish","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Buzzer","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Two long wooden terminal-cord slats, 240 x 41 mm and 233 x 54 mm.","function_summary":"Boys' toy — Haddon records the Norfolk 'humming buzzer,' or simply 'buzzer,' among the bullroarer toys of English boys, with specimens of his own from around the county.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"prm_1913_24_2_3_norwich_buzzer","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39636","page_or_plate":"PRM 1913.24.2-.3; 1913 Annual Report; Haddon 1898:278","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"St Paul's Parish representative anchor in Norwich; not a documented use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Two long wooden blades from St Paul's Parish, Norwich, carried the plain English name Buzzer. Their broad, slightly irregular forms preserve a city toy otherwise known across Norfolk as the humming buzzer — and in Mid-Norfolk as plain 'buzz.'","pull_quote":"where it is called “humming buzzer,” or simply “buzzer”","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Haddon 1898:278","term_gloss":"Buzzer: the Norfolk name for the bullroarer, in full the 'humming buzzer.'","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,"sources":[{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, accession 1913.24.2","url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39636","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39663"},{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, accession 1913.24.3"},{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Annual Report (1913)"},{"citation":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), p. 278"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, accession 1913.24.2; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, accession 1913.24.3; Pitt Rivers Museum, Annual Report (1913); A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), p. 278","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, accession 1913.24.2; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, accession 1913.24.3; Pitt Rivers Museum, Annual Report (1913); A. C. 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