LEEK2023-001 - archaeological find
Schagen two-hole snorrebot
Netherlands - North Holland - Schagen - Europe - Low Countries
Archaeological dateEarly 17th century ADPit S1 context; object not directly dated.
Function not recorded Candidate only
snorrebot nl
snorrebot: Dutch for a 'whirring bone,' normally a single-holed blade swung on a cord.
Someone in early-seventeenth-century Schagen drilled both ends of a cattle rib and left it in a pit with a coin and a worn spindle whorl. The excavators wondered whether it was a snorrebot — a Dutch 'whirring bone' swung on a cord — but ordinary examples have only one hole. One perforation could have held the cord; the second remains unexplained.
Mogelijk is de rib gebruikt als snorrebot, hoewel deze meestal slechts één gat hebben.
The rib may have been used as a snorrebot, although these usually have only one hole.
Leek and Stellingwerf 2023, pp. 63-64
- Object
- A reused cattle rib from pit S1 at Nes 30, Schagen, drilled with a hole at each end: one complete round perforation near the surviving end, the other broken and irregular though recorded by the excavators as a second drilled hole.
- Function
- Possibly a cord-swung humming toy, the excavators' own qualified reading; ordinary snorrebotten have only one hole, and this rib has two.
- Map confidence
- low - Town-centre anchor for Schagen, North Holland; the evidence packet does not carry an excavation-colophon RD coordinate for the Nes 30 plot, so this is a town-level approximation, not a plot-level or pit-level coordinate.
- Source location
- fig. 59.1