Burgwall whirring blade

Source term: Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon

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

In the lake country near Zehdenick, Burgwall gave up one of the Mesolithic bone whirring blades that Klaus-Peter Koch counts among the whirled aerophones of eastern Germany, kin to the better-known blades from Pritzerbe and Fernewerder: flat bone, long and oval, pierced at the broader end. Like its neighbours from Bagow and Döberitz, the Burgwall blade itself is lost, with no photograph or measurement of its own.

Fundliste 7: Aerophone. Wirbelaerophone (Schwirrer) […] Mesolithikum: […] Burgwall, Kr. Gransee […]

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

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 Burgwall piece.

Function

Not recorded.