{"id":"MUS2026-169","label":"Otterbourne copper bullroarer","people_or_site":"English folk / Otterbourne","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Hampshire / Otterbourne near Winchester","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Notched copper blade, 129 x 51 x 1 mm, with one terminal suspension hole and a surviving 272 mm heavy cord.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"horniman_7_206_otterbourne","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/7.206/","page_or_plate":"Horniman 7.206","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Otterbourne village anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In 1882, a small bullroarer made not of wood but of copper turned up at Otterbourne, south of Winchester. Heavy notches bite into both edges of the thin metal blade, and its original cord still hangs from the hole at the pointed end — a copper voice where every neighbouring hummer and buzzer was cut from wood.","pull_quote":"Bullroarer of copper. Collected or made in Otterbourne, near Winchester in 1882","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Horniman Museum and Gardens 7.206","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Horniman Museum and Gardens 7.206","url":"https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/7.206/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260519032416/https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/7.206/"}],"source_citations":"Horniman Museum and Gardens 7.206","source_display":"Horniman Museum and Gardens 7.206","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Notched copper blade, 129 x 51 x 1 mm, with one terminal suspension hole and a surviving 272 mm heavy cord.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"english folk","display_name":"Otterbourne copper bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-169_mus2026-169-horniman-7-206.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-169_mus2026-169-horniman-7-206_thumb.jpg","alt":"Otterbourne copper bullroarer in the Horniman Museum, with deep notches along both edges and a long looped cord attached through one end hole.","credit":"Horniman Museum and Gardens, 7.206","license":"Rights reserved (© Horniman Museum and Gardens); authorization required for republication; proposed for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/7.206/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Otterbourne notched copper bullroarer with its cord, Horniman Museum."},"slug":"mus2026-169-english-folk-otterbourne"}