MUS2026-169 - museum specimen
Otterbourne copper bullroarer
United Kingdom - Hampshire - Otterbourne near Winchester - Europe
Function not recorded
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
- Object
- Notched copper blade, 129 x 51 x 1 mm, with one terminal suspension hole and a surviving 272 mm heavy cord; exact Horniman photograph.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - Otterbourne village anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented use site.
- Source location
- Horniman 7.206