The Bullroarer Atlas

MUS2026-170 - museum specimen

English folk / Bedford

United Kingdom - Bedfordshire - Bedford - Europe

Function not recorded

Bedford Whizzing stick, a serrated terminal-hole wooden blade, Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.1.
Bedford Whizzing stick, a serrated terminal-hole wooden blade, Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.1. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1902.51.1) Image source

Whizzing stick / buzzer English

Source term: Bullroarer

Whizzing stick / buzzer: museum-recorded English names; not a pull-cord mechanism

Blunt teeth run down both edges of Bedford's 22.7-centimetre Whizzing stick, giving the small wooden blade the look of a pocket saw. Buzzer was its other English name.

Wooden 'Bullroarer' with serrated edge.

Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.1
Object
Serrated carved wooden slat, 227 x 32 mm, with one terminal suspension hole; exact PRM photograph.
Function
Function not recorded.
Map confidence
high - OpenStreetMap Bedford town anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented use site.
Source location
PRM 1902.51.1

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