{"id":"MUS2026-180","label":"Woodbastwick Norfolk bullroarer","people_or_site":"English folk / Woodbastwick","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Norfolk / Woodbastwick","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Buzzer","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Rectangular wooden board with a pointed-oval cross-section, 256 x 35 mm, with large trapezoid serrations along both long edges; a bundled cord is lashed into notches at one end rather than through a drilled hole.","function_summary":"Boys' toy — Haddon records the Norfolk 'humming buzzer' among the bullroarer toys of English boys.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"maa_1922_387_woodbastwick","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/484863/","page_or_plate":"MAA 1922.387; MAA record cites Haddon 1908 (recte 1898), The Study of Man, with no specific plate or figure number; fig. 38 no. 7 identified as very likely this board","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Woodbastwick village-centre anchor from GetTheData (credited to Ordnance Survey Open Names), matching MAA provenance; not a documented use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Large trapezoid teeth cut deep into both edges of this board, and its bundled cord is lashed into notches rather than threaded through a drilled hole — a sturdier rig than its Norfolk neighbors. A pencil mark on the wood reads only 'Woodbastwick,' the Broadland village near Wroxham that gave it its name. Its shape and cordage sit squarely within Norfolk's buzzer tradition, the same whirled toy children spun from Hemsby to Norwich to make a summer noise. Haddon engraved his Norfolk buzzers for The Study of Man in 1898 — and the seventh figure on his plate, cord lashed into its notch-waist, is this very board.","pull_quote":"Woodbastwick. Norfolk.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"MAA 1922.387, pencil marking (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge)","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":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, object 1922.387","url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/484863/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013024328/https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/484863/"},{"citation":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), cited by the museum catalogue"}],"source_citations":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, object 1922.387; A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), cited by the museum catalogue","source_display":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, object 1922.387; A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), cited by the museum catalogue","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Rectangular wooden board with a pointed-oval cross-section, 256 x 35 mm, with large trapezoid serrations along both long edges; a bundled cord is lashed into notches at one end rather than through a drilled hole.","function_display":"Boys' toy — Haddon records the Norfolk 'humming buzzer' among the bullroarer toys of English boys.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"english folk","display_name":"Woodbastwick Norfolk bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/haddon1898_fig38_no7_woodbastwick.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/haddon1898_fig38_no7_woodbastwick_thumb.jpg","credit":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), fig. 38 no. 7","license":"Public domain (published 1898)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/b21444584/page/n322/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Haddon's 1898 engraving, fig. 38 no. 7: cord lashed into the notch-waist, trapezoid teeth down both edges.","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":"mus2026-180-english-folk-woodbastwick"}