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A four-ox-team plough, circa 1330. The ploughman is using a mouldboard plough to cut through the heavy soils. A team could plough about one acre (0.4 ha) per day. The typical planting scheme in a three-field system was that barley, oats, or legumes would be planted in one field in spring, wheat or rye in the second field in the fall and the third field would be left fallow.
All of these towns were laid out on a grid plan, so it was easy to divide the land into acre plots of one chain by one furlong, 66 by 660 feet (20 by 201 m) (approximately 0.4 ha.), and these became known as town acres. [27] Adelaide was divided into 1042 Town Acres.
Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges (Medieval Latin: sliones) and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the Middle Ages, typical of the open-field system. It is also known as rig (or rigg) and furrow, mostly in the North East of England and in Scotland. [1] [2] [3]
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Village or Tribe – a village is a human settlement or community that is larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town. The population of a village varies; the average population can range in the hundreds. Anthropologists regard the number of about 150 members for tribes as the maximum for a functioning human group.
A Rundling is a form of circular village, now found only in Northern Germany, typical of settlements in the Germanic-Slav contact zone in the Early Medieval period. [1] View of the Rundling Satemin, 3 km west of Lüchow in the Wendland. The Rundling was a relatively common village form created by German law, but housing Slav farmers.
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Godwick is a deserted village in the county of Norfolk.Its location was south of Fakenham between the villages of Tittleshall and Whissonsett.There are over 200 deserted medieval villages in Norfolk, but most sites have been destroyed by ploughing, the pressures of two world wars or other agricultural uses.