Boslunde

Specimen Detail | SD111-2

Find Spot: Boslunde, Boslunde Parish, Slagelse County

Date of find: 1838

Current Location: National Museum, Copenhagen

Condition: Very fragmentary

Description: Left/Right wound lur, tube yard probably in four segments, Trombone-type mouthpiece. Mouthpipe has seven eyes. Demountable lock with triangular tenon. Bell yard divided into six segments, cast in three tube units with meander joints. Bell disc 292mm diameter with eight bosses decorated at top with shallow cylinder. 118 of these subsidiary elements spaced 4 x 8 around bell aperture, 8 x 8 around periphery of disc and a pattern I of three and a single unit between the bosses.

Citations: Hammerich, 1893, 174 ff; Schmidt, 1915, 123; Broholm, 1949, 19