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Segmented rut (Ballaigues Switzerland). Two straight sections of a rut form a sharp "kink". This can only be obtained by chiseling work. If such a kink would have been worn out by carts, it would have been necessary to stop all carts at exactly the same position and to displace the traction-animals perpendicular to the rut.

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