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Description: | bone flutes, crotal bells (rumbler or animal bells)
Collection of musical instruments and sound making objects that demonstrate a variety of ways in which sound was used. The collection includes purely musical instruments such as flutes made of cattle, sheep and large bird bones, fragments of two Anglo-Saxon lyres, pipe mouthpieces, buzzers (which were swung around on the end of a cord) and a jew's harp. There are also whistles which may also have been toys, bells which were attached to clothes and used as animal bells to keep track of flocks, acoustic jars which were used in churches to improve the acoustics, and other instruments which had military and religious uses. The collection covers archaeological periods from Romano-British through to post-medieval. | Format: | 90 artefacts | Subjects: | Bones Archaeology Archaeological objects Musical instruments | Temporal: | Medieval 1066-1500 Saxon 400-1066 Romano-British 0-500 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7076 | Format: | 90 artefacts | Go to resource |
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