FLINTS & NEOLITHIC ARALDITE: PREHISTORIC BRITISH BULLROARERS?

everal 19 century authors listed the names used for the toy bullroarer used in Britain: there were many variations on , and, particularly in Scotland, . ‘Spell’ here means not a magic charm, but a thin shaving of wood used in fire-lighting. All refer to the bullroarer as a toy, with just one hint that it may once have been taken seriously. Haddon, in 1898, declared that