The Bullroarer Atlas

MUS2026-174 - museum specimen

English folk / Clanfield

United Kingdom - Oxfordshire - Clanfield - Europe

Function not recorded

Clanfield serrated bullroarer with its cord wound around the tapered end, Pitt Rivers Museum 1920.2.1.
Clanfield serrated bullroarer with its cord wound around the tapered end, Pitt Rivers Museum 1920.2.1. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1920.2.1) Image source

Source term: Bullroarer

Broad teeth step down both sides of Clanfield's dark wooden blade, crossed by drawn lines; its cord remains wound around the tapered end exactly as it arrived in 1920.

'Bullroarer' with serrated edges.

Pitt Rivers Museum 1920.2.1
Object
Serrated carved wooden blade, 192 x 56 mm, with drawn decoration and cord wound around its tapered terminal; exact PRM photograph.
Function
Function not recorded.
Map confidence
high - OpenStreetMap Clanfield village anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented use site.
Source location
PRM 1920.2.1

View source Open this point on the interactive map