Otterbourne copper bullroarer

Source term: Bullroarer

In 1882, a small bullroarer made not of wood but of copper turned up at Otterbourne, south of Winchester. Heavy notches bite into both edges of the thin metal blade, and its original cord still hangs from the hole at the pointed end — a copper voice where every neighbouring hummer and buzzer was cut from wood.

Bullroarer of copper. Collected or made in Otterbourne, near Winchester in 1882

Horniman Museum and Gardens 7.206

Particulars

Object

Notched copper blade, 129 x 51 x 1 mm, with one terminal suspension hole and a surviving 272 mm heavy cord.

Function

Not recorded.