Oosthuizen, S. M. (2005). New Light on the Origins of Open-field Farming?. Medieval Archaeology 49. Vol 49, pp. 165-193. https://doi.org/10.5284/1071964. Cite this via datacite
| Title: | New Light on the Origins of Open-field Farming? | ||||
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| Issue: | Medieval Archaeology 49 | ||||
| Series: | Medieval Archaeology | ||||
| Volume: | 49 | ||||
| Page Start/End: | 165 - 193 | ||||
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| Abstract: | The problem addressed in this paper is the proposition that `classic' medieval open-field systems were laid out, parish by parish, by individual communities, each working independently of its neighbours, between about AD 850 and 1150. There is physical and documentary evidence that a large, cohesive field-layout extended across four contiguous parishes on the northern side of the Bourn Brook, West Cambridgeshire, until Parliamentary enclosure. It appears to be a proto-open-field system, probably intensively cultivated, and apparently created in the eighth or ninth centuries AD by a centralised authority, perhaps as part of an `extensive' estate. Includes | ||||
| Year of Publication: | 2005 | ||||
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| Created Date: | 12 Apr 2006 |
