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| There's an interesting aside here. The British countryside and it's walled field systems didn't really come into place until the late eighteenth century with the passing of the various Enclosure Acts coupled with the new fangled farming methods of crop rotation, the use of machines and the introduction of new breeds of animals. Prior to the enclosures farmers took alternating strips of the commonly held land It's interesting when you go to mediterranean countries and see the field boundaries there. They tend to be low banks of earth or stones with maybe a large bank enclosing a number of fields. Reply | with quote |  4th June 2004ce 12:17 In reply to: Re: "standing stone fences" (Kammer) |
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