Bagow whirring blade

Source term: Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon

Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon: German, "whirrer" and "whirled aerophone" - the archaeological terms for a bullroarer.

A Mesolithic bone whirring blade from Bagow, north-east of Brandenburg an der Havel. Klaus-Peter Koch counts it among the whirled aerophones of eastern Germany, kin to the better-known blades from Pritzerbe, Fernewerder and Wustermark: flat bone, long and oval, a single hole through the broader end for the cord. The Bagow blade itself is lost; its size, its marks and its resting place are unknown.

Fundliste 7: Aerophone. Wirbelaerophone (Schwirrer) […] Mesolithikum: Bagow, Kr. Brandenburg […]

Find list 7: Aerophones. Whirled aerophones (bullroarers) […] Mesolithic: Bagow, district of Brandenburg […]

Koch 1992:132

Particulars

Object

No object-level description has been recovered. Koch's find list gives the locality alone. His accompanying description of the East German Mesolithic set - the surviving pieces are bone, not wood; elongated-oval with a tendency to a streamlined form; the perforation at the one broader end; lengths between 13 and 21 cm, widths 2.0 to 2.5 cm, thickness under 0.7 cm - is stated for the group as a whole and is not a measurement of the Bagow piece.

Function

Not recorded.