There was also a pipe made from clay in the finds, presumably to get air from the bellows to the charcoal burn face. I don't know if it was a matched diameter or how it was attached.
And a quote I like,
'A transfer of ideas was not in one direction only...' (p.14). Makes a nice counter point to the concept that ideas do not simply bleed into adjacent cultures, even when contact and similar levels of technology are available.
And now it is time to stop reading this article. I would love to find an article just like this for the 10th C Norse cultures and their geographical and trading partners. Must keep looking.
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