MUS2026-186 - museum specimen
English folk / Bristol
United Kingdom - Bristol - Europe
Function not recorded
Source term: Bullroarer
Whittled to a spear point, notched like a saw along its edge and barely an inch wide, the Bristol blade keeps its string wound tight around its butt end. A Miss Jessop of Oxford's High Street donated it in 1905; a slip of the pen numbered it wrongly on arrival, and when curators corrected the error almost a century later the old digits refused to come off. It stands on open display in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
- Object
- Narrow carved wooden blade, 141 x 25 mm, notched along its profile and tapering to a point, with its cord wound around the suspension end; exact PRM photograph.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - OpenStreetMap City of Bristol anchor; the museum records only city-level provenance.
- Source location
- PRM 1905.61.1