[MR] wheels

[Alianora Munro]

--- Ceara ni Neill <ceara at housebarra.com> wrote:
> I'm curious,
> when did a spoked wheel become prevalent, as opposed
> to the solid wooden one?


I can't speak to prevalence of one over the other, but
I do know that there is a splendidly complete Roman
spoked wooden wheel in the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow
University.  I can't seem to find a picture of it on
the Museum's web
site(http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/index.html), but
appended below is the the record on it from their
collections database.  There are also some Roman wheel
bits in the collection, as well.

Alianora
====

Hunterian Museum Archaeology & Ethnography
Collections:
GLAHM F.1936.91

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This information is © The Hunterian Museum and Art
Gallery, University of Glasgow 2003




wheel, wooden, complete,

artefact

Materials: wood, ash & elm, and iron,

Locality: Twechar, Strathkelvin, Strathclyde, Scotland


Manufacture: MANU unknown vicinity of fort Scotland

Context: Bar Hill fort, refuse pit 6 at 2.44m depth,
AD 142-180 Roman, Antonine

References: PUBL MACDONALD, G. & PARK, A. 1906 PUBL
ROBERTSON, A., SCOTT, M. & KEPPIE, L. 1975

Notes: construction; one-piece felloe (enclosed by
iron tyre), eleven spokes, nave of elm and hubs lined
with iron

Keywords: ROMAN : ANTONINE : TRANSPORT :



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