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Monument Number 1503434
Hob Uid: 1503434
Location : North Yorkshire Ryedale Byland with Wass
Grid Ref : SE5516078990
Summary : Fragmentary earthwork remains of a furlong of ridge-and-furrow ploughing pre-dating the laying out of the precinct at Byland Abbey around the middle of the 12th century. Scheduled.
More information : Fragments of a furlong of broad ridge-and-furrow ploughing are visible at the base of a low ridge that runs away eastwards from the church and claustral ranges at Byland Abbey (SE 57 NW 1). Individual ridges or 'lands' are circa 8-10m wide. Presumably the ploughing originally covered the entire ridge, but it is only the very northern ends of the lands which now survive as earthworks, centred at SE 5516 7899. The reason for the survival of these fragments seems to be that they lie immediately north of a monastic leat or aqueduct (SE 57 NE 140) constructed to bring water to flush drains on the east side of the cloister, which means they escaped destruction by later, post-Dissolution, ploughing across the rest of the ridge. Since the leat cuts the furlong, it implies that the ploughing is pre-monastic and therefore pre-dates the gift of the Byland site to the monks in about 1147. The ploughing lies within the area of RSM 13279 (1a). Surveyed at 1:1000 scale as part of the EH: Byland Abbey Survey (plough furlong PF2). See plans and report (1b) in the NMR for further information. (1)

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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Marcus Jecock/25-OCT-2010/EH: Byland Abbey Survey
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Source Number : 1A
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Source details : 20-Jul-92
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Source Number : 1B
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Source details : Jecock, M, Burn, A, Brown, G and Oswald, A 2011, Byland Abbey, Ryedale, North Yorkshire: Archaeological Survey and Investigation of Part of the Precinct and Extra-Mural Area (RDRS 4-2011), 30
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Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : pre 1147
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Monument Type : Ridge And Furrow
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : NY 1
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 13279
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SE 57 NE 133
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Relationship type : General association

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Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 2008-01-01
End Date : 2010-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 1503434