The Bullroarer Atlas

MUS2026-171 - museum specimen

English folk / Needingworth

United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire - Needingworth - Europe

Function not recorded

Needingworth Roaring bull, a dog-toothed wooden blade just over 30 cm long, Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.2.
Needingworth Roaring bull, a dog-toothed wooden blade just over 30 cm long, Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.2. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1902.51.2) Image source

Roaring bull English

Source term: Bullroarer

Roaring bull: museum-recorded English name for the Needingworth bullroarer

Broad dog teeth along both edges gave Needingworth's thirty-centimetre Roaring bull a fittingly ferocious village name.

Long wooden 'Bullroarer' with dog-toothed edge.

Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.2
Object
Long dog-toothed carved wooden slat, 306 x 49 mm, with one terminal suspension hole; exact PRM photograph.
Function
Function not recorded.
Map confidence
high - OpenStreetMap Needingworth village anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented use site.
Source location
PRM 1902.51.2

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