The Bullroarer Atlas

MUS2026-168 - museum specimen

English folk / Chichester

United Kingdom - West Sussex - Chichester - Europe

Function not recorded

Representative—not this record’s object: Nuremberg Schwirrholz toy, shown as a regional stand-in; no image of this record’s own object is...
Representative—not this record’s object: Nuremberg Schwirrholz toy, shown as a regional stand-in; no image of this record’s own object is available yet. Spielzeugmuseum der Stadt Nürnberg (Museum Lydia Bayer), 1974.253 — via Europeana CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Image source

Whizzing blade English

Source term: Bullroarer

Whizzing blade: PRM-recorded name for the Chichester pair; no independent local lexical source recovered

Whizzing blades — the name two wooden bullroarers carried when the Reverend R. H. Codrington brought them in from Chichester in 1911. Each is a long, narrow board corded through a rounded end; one bears three small extra holes at the far tip, their purpose unexplained. The pair has stayed together ever since.

2 wooden bull-roarers, Chichester, Sussex.

Pitt Rivers Museum Annual Report 1912
Object
Two long thin wooden terminal-cord slats, 305 x 39 mm and 304 x 35 mm; the second has three distal holes opposite the cord; exact PRM photographs.
Function
Function not recorded.
Map confidence
high - Chichester city-center anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented performance site.
Source location
PRM 1920.100.66-.67; 1912 Annual Report

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