I'm really not quite sure how this is advancing archaeology
or zoology (what exactly will it tell us about chariots?),
but since we have started....
I believe that the modern European railway gauge was
calculated by doing an average of cart wheelbases in
Britain in the early 19th century. Brunel wanted a wider
gauge - he was, of course, right. So if someboby knows the
gauge of tracks... (an anorak fact I used to know but
cannot now remember).
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Alan K. Outram
University of Exeter
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