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FIELDS IN KINGS WOOD Part 2... The LiDAR map reveals that there were indeed fields in King's Wood, and many of them. The lines on the map are 'lynchets', marking the edge of a sharp change of slope, created mostly by movement of the soil downhill due to long term ploughing between boundaries, with perhaps also a deliberate element of levelling. This could be done by selecting land with a comparatively gentle gradient and cutting in to the higher land to create a back wall then pushing the removed earth across to the lower lying area to create a level surface. Depending on the topography this might leave one or both of the other sides as a wall. That might be what we see on the LiDAR images which often seem to show squares which have three strong sides and a weaker/ absent fourth. www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk Village Voice October/November 2019 Where there is not much of a slope, such as at the Totteridge edge of the wood, we should not expect to find surviving lynchets of any size, if at all, but this does not necessarily mean that these areas were not cultivated. There are faint traces of boundaries in the more heavily used and flatter parts of the wood which have been eroded by the passage of feet. We should also bear in mind that what we see today is not what farmers many years ago would have seen because if you clear Chiltern valley sides of trees for farming you increase the risk of lateral movement and soil run-off with rain. This means that the thin soil that we see today would have been considerably thicker and would have better supported agriculture. The immediate question arising is when were these fields first marked out? How long has the wood protected these still well-defined, in some cases still massive boundary banks from erosion by feet and by the weather? Are we talking about medieval fields, or even earlier? Were they in use in the many centuries of the Saxon period before the Norman Conquest? Did the Romans inherit these fields from their prehistoric predecessors, and if so are we talking about Iron Age, Bronze Age or Neolithic farmers? These are the questions which I will be trying to address in future articles. Miles Green 37
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