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Windmill Miller

Also known as Molen · Dutch windmill

Windmill Miller: photograph by DimiTalen
Photo: DimiTalen, CC0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Turn the windmill cap into the wind, set sail cloth, adjust the millstone gap and feed grain so flour is fine and not burned.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Netherlands, Spain, Iran.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of River Valleys and First Cities (about 3000 to 1000 BCE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Celtic and Atlantic Europe.

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