KOCH1992-007 - archaeological find
Satzkorn whirring blade
Germany - Brandenburg - former Kreis Potsdam - Europe
Function not recorded
Source term: Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon
Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon: German, "whirrer" and "whirled aerophone" - the archaeological terms for a bullroarer.
Satzkorn is a village swallowed by the northern edge of Potsdam, and somewhere in it a Mesolithic bone whirring blade is said to have surfaced. Koch's 1992 inventory lists the place, unqualified, among the whirled aerophones of eastern Germany - the entry is everything that survives, with no image, measurement, or known resting place today.
Fundliste 7: Aerophone. Wirbelaerophone (Schwirrer) […] Mesolithikum: […] Satzkorn, Kr. Potsdam […]
Find list 7: Aerophones. Whirled aerophones (bullroarers) […] Mesolithic: […] Satzkorn, district of Potsdam […]
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 Satzkorn piece.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Satzkorn village anchor from public OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer data (Satzkorn, now a northern district of Potsdam; formerly Kreis Potsdam). Locality anchor only, not a findspot.
- Source location
Page references
printed p. 132, Fundliste 7 (Mesolithikum); group description p. 119