More information : There is a large area of cultivation remains to the W of Alnham
village.
NT 9810/22 (NT 9885 1088). An area of broad ridge-and-furrow, not
surveyed, bordered by NT 9810/21 to the W, the modern road to S and E
and a drystone wall to N. The rig is very abraded or, more probably,
was never very well developed and is barely visible. The rigs are c
4.2 m wide and the furrows are less than 0.1 m deep. The rig all
lies in one direction, running diagonally down the SE-facing slope on
a N-S orientation. The direction of the rig is not quite parallel to
[NT 9810/21] so that is perhaps not an original boundary to it. The
area is now in improved pasture.
NT 9810/23 (NT 9872 1065). A series of lynchets and cultivation
remains lying in a slight hollow. The lynchets are up to 1.0 m high
but more generally 0.3-0.5 m high. Between the lynchets are two
furrows which, because of the natural slopes, have formed slight
lynchets of their own. A later bank, 0.2 m high by 4.2 m wide, lies
across these furrows. The present field boundary is a collapsed
drystone wall, very abraded, c 1.0 m wide and up to 0.4 m high,
overlying lynchet, furrow and bank. The area is in rough pasture.
NT 9810/24 (NT 9875 1071). An area of irregular broad ridge-and-
furrow, not surveyed, consists of rigs c 4.0-5.0 m wide with furrows
less than 0.1 m deep. The area is in improved pasture so possibly
the rig has been damaged by later cultivation but equally possibly it
was never well developed. The rig lies on a fairly steep and
irregular, bumpy NE-facing slope and is orientated approximately NE-
SW to run directly across the contours.
NT 9810/25 (NT 9890 1075). An area of broad ridge-and-furrow, not
surveyed, lying in improved pasture, is very abraded or was perhaps
never well developed. The rig has two orientations. In the S part of
the field it is orientated approximately NNW-SSE with rigs about 3.8
m wide and furrows up to 0.1 m deep. There are 25 furrows on this
alignment which crosses the contours at right angles. To the N the
rigs are aligned approximately N-S to run diagonally down the
NE-facing slopes which are steeper here. These rigs are 4.5-4.6 m
wide with ill-defined furrows less than 0.1 m deep.
In none of these areas of rig is there an indication of curves in the
plan or of the presence of headlands. All the above lie between 160
and 190 m OD. (1) |