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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.
A back lane is a roadway often found in a planned medieval village running parallel to the main street at the other end of burgage plots. [1] [2] There may be a back lane on each side of the main street which, together with the main street itself, provides a rectangular framework for the development of the village.
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.
3D model of the Old City. The Old City (German: Altstadt) is the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland.Built on a narrow hill bordered on three sides by the river Aare, its compact layout has remained essentially unchanged since its construction during the twelfth to the fifteenth century.
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.
The warning came one day after Trump said he would impose a new round of tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on his first day in office. Before the Nov. 5 election, he had proposed a baseline 10% ...
A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. The translation into Latin and dissemination of Geography in Europe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation.
From April 2012 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when John E. Lowe joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 56.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a 2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.