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RURAL RELICS THE CARTWHEEL

he earliest wheels were made from simple solid disks, shaped from a single block of wood. From around 5000BC people were making wheels from three shaped planks of wood, but these were heavy and had weak spots. From around 2000BC spoked wheels were made,

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