A discarded wooden shaft from a horizontal water mill. The slots where the wooden vanes of the water wheel fitted can be seen. The shaft would have stood vertivcally with the vanes turning horizontaly in a stream and the thin of the shaft fitted into a horizontal mill stone. Ura, Bhutan, Drul Yul. 17 November 2007

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A discarded wooden shaft from a horizontal water mill. The slots where the wooden vanes of the water wheel fitted can be seen. The shaft would have stood vertivcally with the vanes turning horizontaly in a stream and the thin of the shaft fitted into a horizontal mill stone. Ura, Bhutan, Drul Yul. 17 November 2007

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