DORST2011-001 - archaeological find
Voorstraat snorrebot strip
Netherlands - South Holland - Dordrecht, Leeuwenburg-Mijnsherenherberg on the Voorstraat - Europe - Low Countries
Function not recorded Candidate only
snorrebot Dutch
Source term: onbekend voorwerp / zogeheten snorrebot
snorrebot: Dutch for a 'whirring bone,' a cord-swung humming toy.
A polished strip of ivory lay in a seventeenth-century cess cellar beneath Voorstraat in Dordrecht. Its single end hole could have held the cord of a children's humming toy — a Dutch snorrebot, or 'whirring bone' — swung overhead to raise and lower its note. But the same polish that makes the toy interpretation attractive may have come from work: the strip could instead have been a small weaving sword or a shoehorn.
Het gaat hier waarschijnlijk om een zogeheten snorrebot, een soort kinderspeelgoed dat aan een draad boven het hoofd rondgeslingerd wordt en daarbij een snorrend geluid laat horen.
This is probably a so-called snorrebot, a kind of children's toy that is swung around on a thread above the head and thereby lets a whirring sound be heard.
Dorst, Graven naar de Graaf, Dordrecht Ondergronds 5 (2011), p. 60
- Object
- A lightly curved strip of bone, probably ivory and possibly walrus ivory, 10.4 x 2.3 x 0.5 cm: slightly hollow on one face, convex on the other, of very fine structure and high polish, pierced once near one end; small facet scars mark where fragments have sprung off the opposite end.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - OpenStreetMap address point for Voorstraat 244, Dordrecht Centrum - the excavated street address itself, so a plot-level anchor rather than a coordinate for cess cellar S86 within the plot.
- Source location
Page references
Dorst 2011, printed pp. 58-60, Fig. 74; notes 173, 180 and 181 on printed p. 65