MORT 发表于 2025-3-30 10:42:34
Heathland to be bounded by banks and ditches, revealing previous occupation of Crown land where it was officially disallowed. Parallels are drawn with agricultural incursions on nearby private heathland, which imply dates for the New Forest examples. Next, the intricate nature of heathland utilisation and prIndicative 发表于 2025-3-30 14:13:03
Lot Meadsere allocated by the drawing of lots. A prime example was Yarnton Mead near Oxford, where first-hand experience of the last stage of a possibly Anglo-Saxon system is detailed. Two further personal observations of communal allocation are then introduced, one in Wiltshire, the other in Devon. An exerctic-douloureux 发表于 2025-3-30 20:19:48
Drove Roadswere in use until the 1920s, does imply multiple overland movements of livestock. Major routes converged on the great fairs of south-central England, where animals were sold to fatteners from counties closer to the London market. But although the routes are traceable on the ground they cannot revealbabble 发表于 2025-3-30 21:11:46
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