Torksey bone roarer

Source term: bull roarer

The Viking Great Army wintered at Torksey on the Trent in AD 872–873, leaving a vast scatter of objects behind. This worked bone belongs to the collection recovered in the camp area. Less than five centimetres long, it has an oval recess near one end and a broken-open hole at the other. Its cataloguers set aside an old whistle identification and read it as a handle, or a bullroarer.

Bone handle; previously identified as whistle but thought unlikely, but possibly bull roarer.

ADS object 2696535, description

Particulars

Object

Worked bone, 49.7 × 18.1 × 6.9 mm and 5.76 g, with an oval recess near one end and a second hole broken open at the other.

Function

Not recorded.