{"id":"MUS2026-178","label":"Ickleton Cambridgeshire Buzzer bullroarer","people_or_site":"English folk / Ickleton","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Cambridgeshire / Ickleton","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Buzzer","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Thick, sub-rectangular wooden board, 217 x 42 x 9 mm, with triangular serrations along both long edges; a knotted cord passes through a hole at the pointed end, the opposite end flat.","function_summary":"Boys' toy — Haddon's Cambridgeshire informants knew the instrument as the 'bull'; this Ickleton blade, ink-labelled Buzzer, is the same schoolboy toy under a neighbouring name.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"maa_1922_384_ickleton_buzzer","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/483726/","page_or_plate":"MAA 1922.384; MAA record cites Haddon 1908 (recte 1898), The Study of Man, 'Plate 38, Fig. 9' -- not independently confirmed (see notes)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Ickleton village-center anchor matching MAA provenance; not a documented use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A thick, pointed board lined with small sawteeth along both edges, its cord still knotted through a hole at one end, was collected at Ickleton in Cambridgeshire and marked in ink with its local name: 'Buzzer.' That name cuts against what Alfred Haddon heard elsewhere in the same county, where the same whirled toy was simply a 'bull' and its edges were left plain. One county, two names, two finishes.","pull_quote":"'Buzzer'. Ickleton. Cambs.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"MAA 1922.384, handwritten ink marking (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge)","term_gloss":"Buzzer: the local name inked on the board, after the noise it makes when whirled.","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":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge (MAA) 1922.384; collected and donated 1922 by Dr A. C. Haddon","url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/483726/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013022836/https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/483726/"}],"source_citations":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge (MAA) 1922.384; collected and donated 1922 by Dr A. C. Haddon","source_display":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge (MAA) 1922.384; collected and donated 1922 by Dr A. C. Haddon","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Thick, sub-rectangular wooden board, 217 x 42 x 9 mm, with triangular serrations along both long edges; a knotted cord passes through a hole at the pointed end, the opposite end flat.","function_display":"Boys' toy — Haddon's Cambridgeshire informants knew the instrument as the 'bull'; this Ickleton blade, ink-labelled Buzzer, is the same schoolboy toy under a neighbouring name.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"english folk","display_name":"Ickleton Cambridgeshire Buzzer bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-178_mus2026-178-maa-1922-384.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-178_mus2026-178-maa-1922-384_thumb.jpg","alt":"Ickleton wooden buzzer with serrations along both long edges and a cord through a hole near one end, shown above a scale.","credit":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1922.384","license":"Rights reserved (© Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge); rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/483726","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Ickleton serrated wooden buzzer, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge."},"slug":"mus2026-178-english-folk-ickleton"}