The Bullroarer Atlas

KOCH1992-003 - archaeological find

Wustermark plain whirring blade

Germany - Brandenburg - Havelland - Europe

Archaeological datec. 9600–4000 BCMuseum display date; object not directly dated.

Function not recorded

Exact Berlin museum photograph of the Wustermark undecorated Mesolithic bone Schwirrblatt.
Exact Berlin museum photograph of the Wustermark undecorated Mesolithic bone Schwirrblatt. · CC BY-SA 3.0 Image source

Source term: Schwirrplättchen / Schwirrblatt

Schwirrplättchen / Schwirrblatt: small whirring plate or whirring blade; archaeological German terms for a bullroarer

Dark, slightly curved, tapering, with one hole through the wide end and not a mark of decoration on it: the bone blade from Wustermark is the plain sibling of the ornamented Fernewerder piece, and unlike that one the object in the Berlin case is the original. Koch counted it among the Mesolithic whirring blades of eastern Germany; the museum dates it only to the long forager span between 9600 and 4000 BC. Where in Wustermark it came out of the ground nobody now records.

Die Durchbohrung befindet sich an dem einen (breiteren) Ende.

The perforation is located at one, broader end.

Koch 1992:119
Object
Long, dark, slightly curved and tapered bone blade with a single perforation at its broader end; the Berlin display identifies it as an undecorated Mesolithic whirring blade.
Function
Not recorded.
Map confidence
medium - Wustermark town anchor; no site number or exact findspot is recovered, and the object is not assigned to Wustermark 22.
Source location
Page references

printed pp. 119–120; Fundliste 7; Berlin museum display

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