KOCH1992-005 - archaeological find
Burgwall whirring blade
Germany - Brandenburg - former Kreis Gransee - Europe
Function not recorded
Source term: Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon
Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon: German, "whirrer" and "whirled aerophone" - the archaeological terms for a bullroarer.
North of Bagow in the lake country near Zehdenick, Koch's 1992 survey enters a second bare place-name under the same heading: "Burgwall, Kr. Gransee," among the Mesolithic whirled aerophones of eastern Germany. As with its Havel-country neighbours, no photograph, measurement or excavation account survives - only the entry itself, filed in the same short list as the better-documented blades from Pritzerbe and Fernewerder.
Fundliste 7: Aerophone. Wirbelaerophone (Schwirrer) […] Mesolithikum: […] Burgwall, Kr. Gransee […]
Find list 7: Aerophones. Whirled aerophones (bullroarers) […] Mesolithic: […] Burgwall, district of Gransee […]
Koch 1992:132
- 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 Burgwall piece.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Burgwall village anchor from public OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer data (Burgwall, Zehdenick, Oberhavel; Zehdenick lay in the former Kreis Gransee, which is how Koch files it). Locality anchor only, not a findspot.
- Source location
Page references
printed p. 132, Fundliste 7 (Mesolithikum); group description p. 119