Practice question · Multiple choice
Why is enclosure visible from the air?
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- What shape are open-field strips? What shape is a surveyor’s line?
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C. Straight new boundaries cut across the older curves
Why
Ridge-and-furrow curves; enclosure rules straight lines across it. Field boundaries, terraces, and hedges record centuries of decisions about labour, tenure, and inheritance, a landscape is an object at another scale.
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