This area of surveyed enclosure countryside is crossed by a "Town Field Lane" and interpreted from Harrison's 1637 survey as being farmed by strips as 'townfield' (Scurfield 1986, Fig 8 and text p 164). The field differs from other larger Sheffield examples in that the individual groups of strips appear to be grouped according to discrete irregular enclosed field units more akin to the older piecemeal enclosures of areas where common arable does not appear to have existed. It is possible that a common arable system was superimposed within an earlier field system. The present surveyed layout is likely to date to the removal of common rights by either a parliamentary act or private enclosure agreement. The principal enclosure act to deal with Bradfield was enacted in 1826 (English 1985, 21) The small Lee Wood is probably an ancient remnant and some irregular boundaries within the polygon may be of great longevity. Therefore fragmentary legibility of earlier landscape evidence.