Wustermark plain whirring blade

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 V-engraved blade from Fernewerder, and where Berlin can show only a copy of that one, the Wustermark blade in the 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

Particulars

Object

Long, dark, slightly curved and tapered Mesolithic bone blade, undecorated, with a single perforation at its broader end.

Function

Not recorded.