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In his introductory summary of previous research, Zygmunt Klodnicki characterises my interpretation of the hay-bow as "isolated". By this he meant that in part I was interpreting the development of the hay-bow in Sweden as indigenous, and that in part I considered it to be a relatively recent phenomenon: "Analysing old inventories he has come to the conclusion, that rezginias appeared in Sweden in the first part of the XVIIIth century."
The first problem in mapping the Italian types of cradle is that of the availability and quality of the data. As far as I know, there is no specific and systematic study concerning Italy or any of its single provinces. Data are mostly fortuitous, not very analytical and often vague. Furthermore the study of the traditional cradle has been dealt with exclusively from two points of view