Monument record 9897/0/6 - Open Fields Project: Areas of Survival of Ridge & Furrow

Earthworks of medieval/post-medieval ridge and furrow cultivation identified on aerial photographs during the Open Fields Project.

{3} T.C. Welsh describes the form and alignment of the ridge and furrow remains here.

{4} A particularly well preserved block of ridge and furrow exists in pasture at SP662645. In the same area is a reversed-S furlong (SP664 646) orientated north-south, which has remarkably high terminations at the south ends of the ridges. These are large sub-rectangular mounds, up to 1.25m high, which would seem to have prevented a plough from turning. Their function and method of formation are not clear.

<1> Hall D.; Palmer R., 2001, Midland Open Fields Project: Digital Archive, (part checked) (Archive). SNN105253.

<2> Hall D.N., 2001, Turning The Plough - Midland Open Fields: Landscape Character and Proposals for Management, (unchecked) (Book). SNN101551.

<3> Welsh, T., 2003, Early or Pre-medieval Landscape, Great Brington, (unchecked) (Report). SNN107005.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.26 site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

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