KOCH1992-006 - archaeological find
Döberitz whirring blade
Germany - Brandenburg - Havelland, former Kreis Rathenow - Europe
Function not recorded
Source term: Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon
Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon: German, "whirrer" and "whirled aerophone" - the archaeological terms for a bullroarer.
Döberitz sits on the Havel a few bends from Pritzerbe, whose polished, dotted bone blade is the best-known whirring device of the region. Koch's 1992 inventory files the Döberitz find as kin, unqualified, among the Mesolithic whirled aerophones of eastern Germany - but only the name survives, with no image, measurement, or account of how or where it was found.
Fundliste 7: Aerophone. Wirbelaerophone (Schwirrer) […] Mesolithikum: […] Döberitz, Kr. Rathenow […]
Find list 7: Aerophones. Whirled aerophones (bullroarers) […] Mesolithic: […] Döberitz, district of Rathenow […]
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 Döberitz piece.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Döberitz village anchor from public OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer data (Döberitz, Premnitz, Havelland; Premnitz lay in the former Kreis Rathenow). Locality anchor only, not a findspot; this is not the Döberitz heath west of Berlin.
- Source location
Page references
printed p. 132, Fundliste 7 (Mesolithikum); group description p. 119