MUS2026-170 - museum specimen
Bedford whizzing-stick bullroarer
United Kingdom - Bedfordshire - Bedford - Europe
Play / practical
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
- Boys' toy — 'In Bedfordshire its name is "buzzer",' Haddon records, listing the county among those where English boys played with the instrument.
- Map confidence
- high - OpenStreetMap Bedford town anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented use site.
- Source location
- PRM 1902.51.1
- Toy / secular survival