{"id":"MUS2026-179","label":"Hemsby Norfolk Buzzer bullroarer","people_or_site":"English folk / Hemsby","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Norfolk / Hemsby","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Buzzer","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Rectangular wooden board, 291 x 35 mm, with triangular notches along both long edges; a bundled, looped cord passes through a hole at the rounded end, the opposite end flat.","function_summary":"Boys' toy — Haddon records the Norfolk 'humming buzzer' among the bullroarer toys of English boys; this Hemsby blade is one of his own figured county specimens.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"maa_1922_386_hemsby_buzzer","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/484862/","page_or_plate":"MAA 1922.386; Haddon 1898, The Study of Man, Fig. 38 no. 8, p.279 (in-text figure; MAA record cites it as 'Plate 38, Fig. 8' and misdates the book 1908)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Hemsby village-center anchor matching MAA provenance; not a documented use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Norfolk children called it the humming buzzer, or simply buzzer: a wooden board whirled on a length of string until it growled. This slim, rounded-top example from Hemsby is one of the county specimens Alfred Haddon engraved as No. 8 in his 1898 survey of British bullroarers — the same blade, cord and all, that sits in the Cambridge drawer today.","pull_quote":"I have several specimens from different parts of Norfolk, where it is called \"humming buzzer,\" or simply \"buzzer\"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (London: John Murray, 1898), p.278","term_gloss":"Buzzer / humming buzzer: the Norfolk names for the whirled board.","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, 1922.386","url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/484862/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013022726/https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/484862/"},{"citation":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (London: John Murray, 1898), pp. 278–279, fig. 38 no. 8"}],"source_citations":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, 1922.386; A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (London: John Murray, 1898), pp. 278–279, fig. 38 no. 8","source_display":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, 1922.386; A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (London: John Murray, 1898), pp. 278–279, fig. 38 no. 8","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Rectangular wooden board, 291 x 35 mm, with triangular notches along both long edges; a bundled, looped cord passes through a hole at the rounded end, the opposite end flat.","function_display":"Boys' toy — Haddon records the Norfolk 'humming buzzer' among the bullroarer toys of English boys; this Hemsby blade is one of his own figured county specimens.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"english folk","display_name":"Hemsby Norfolk Buzzer bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/haddon1898_fig38_no8_hemsby.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/haddon1898_fig38_no8_hemsby_thumb.jpg","credit":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), fig. 38 no. 8","license":"Public domain (published 1898)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/b21444584/page/n322/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Hemsby serrated buzzer with cord, Haddon fig. 38 no. 8.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/haddon1898_fig38_british_bullroarers.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/haddon1898_fig38_british_bullroarers_thumb.jpg","alt":"Haddon’s plate of nine numbered British bull-roarer designs, drawn upright in varied shapes: plain, broad, rounded and saw-toothed blades, several with cords attached.","credit":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), fig. 38","license":"Public domain (published 1898)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/b21444584/page/n322/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Haddon's full plate of bullroarers from the British Islands."}]},"slug":"mus2026-179-english-folk-hemsby"}