More information : Area approx. TF 083097. The strips of several furlongs on the open fields of the villages of Barholm and Effington can be seen as ridge and furrow earthworks, crop marks and soil marks. (See photo).
R.A.F. cover shows, in addition to traces of crop marks and modern cultivation, a rectangular crop mark at TF 08450979. (1-2)
The earthworks are pronounced rig and furrow. The rectangular mark adjacent appears contempory. (3)
The ridge and furrow refered to by authority 1 forms part of a
medieval field system which has been mapped from good quality air
photographs. This field system of ridge and furrow survives as
earthworks and is visible on 1973 vertical photography stretching
over a large area centred at TF 0773 0935, Additional NGR's:
TF 0678 0948, TF 0755 0862, TF 0824 0894, TF 0859 0970. The ridge and furrow probably survives because it is situated in the parkland
of Casewick Hall which will have seen little or no cultivation since
the late Medieval period. (Morph No. LI.778.3.1)
The rectangular cropmark refered to by authority 1-2 is a cropmark
of the junction of different directions of rig and furrow.
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
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