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    Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges (Medieval Latin: sliones) and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the...
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  • which divides troughs in ridge and furrow agriculture Ridge (roof), an architectural element on roofs Ridge (surname) The Ridge, Shimla, open space in Himachal...
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    Plough (redirect from Furrows)
    was in the same place each year, the soil built up into a ridge, creating the ridge and furrow topography still seen in some ancient fields.[citation needed]...
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    within Allestree Park exhibit ridge and furrow undulations, which are the visible signs of early medieval farming and ploughing practices. These ceased...
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    barrows, tumuli, ridge and furrow, mottes, round barrows, and other tombs. Hill forts, a type of fort made out of mostly earth and other natural materials...
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    long and uncluttered views. In its archetypal form, cultivated land consisted of long, narrow strips of land in a distinctive ridge and furrow pattern...
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    The Crystal Palace (category Buildings and structures completed in 1851)
    Chatsworth Lily House, which featured a flat-roof version of the ridge-and-furrow glazing, and a curtain wall system that allowed the hanging of vertical bays...
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    of the scalp and characterized by ridges and furrows, which give the scalp a cerebriform appearance. Clinically, the ridges are hard and cannot be flattened...
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  • free dictionary. Rigg comes from the Scottish word for "ridge", as in the medieval "ridge and furrow" system of farming, or run rig land allocation. It may...
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    Somerleyton Hall (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    finest in Britain, created by William Andrews Nesfield in 1846, and a ridge and furrow greenhouse designed by Joseph Paxton, the architect of The Crystal...
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    Ploughing techniques created a landscape of ridge and furrow, with furrows between ridges dividing holdings and aiding drainage. The right of pasture on fallowed...
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    a former Kimmeridge Clay quarry, and one of the United Kingdom's best remaining examples of medieval ridge and furrow agriculture. The economy of the region...
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    planted on the ridge between furrows which may contain a single row of plants or several rows in the case of a bed-type system. Furrows may range anywhere...
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    he designed a glass house with a ridge and furrow roof that would be at right angles to the morning and evening sun and an ingenious frame design that would...
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    planted with one set of crops one year, a different set in the second year, and left fallow in the third year. A set of crops is rotated from one field to...
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    Age fort and hill-top barrows. 19th-century maps indicate that cider orchards were planted on some lynchets in that area. Ridge and furrow CĂ©ide Fields...
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    Ox (zodiac) Ox in Chinese mythology Ox-wagon (bullock wagon) Oxtail Ridge and furrow Boeuf gras "BULLOCK | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary"...
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    Dermis (redirect from Friction ridge)
    Skin". Ridges and Furrows. Archived from the original on 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2016-12-23. Hicklin, R. Austin (2009). "Anatomy of Friction Ridge Skin"...
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    Watford and associated ridge and furrow cultivation. Pilgrim Father Thomas Rogers was born in Watford about 1572. He was the son of William Rogers and his...
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  • dictionary. The term corrugated, describing a series of parallel ridges and furrows, may refer to the following: Corrugated fiberboard, also called corrugated...
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  • orientation of the field systems between the two areas. The pattern of ridge and furrow will often reveal the layout of the original open fields. In parts...
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    traditionally cultivated for cereals and vegetables to be transformed into pastures for sheep. The medieval ridge and furrow cultivation pattern remains evident...
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    for potatoes. Rather like cord rig cultivation, parallel banks of ridge and furrow are dug by spade although lazy beds have banks that are bigger, up...
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    original Wolverton was a medieval settlement just north and west of today's town. The ridge and furrow pattern of agriculture can still be seen in the nearby...
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    Roden, Shropshire (category Telford and Wrekin)
    medieval ridge and furrow field pattern near the river have been detected from the air (1991). Roden had a long history of producing tomatoes, and was once...
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    religious function, a place to meet and hear news. The village park also shows traces of mediaeval ridge and furrow cultivation. The Manor of Wakefield...
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    Crystal Palace was designed in 1851 by Joseph Paxton with its innovative ridge-and-furrow roof, the rafters that spanned the space between the roof girders of...
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    the buildings remain. The area is also Grade II listed as "ridge and furrow earthworks [and] cultivation strips". Richard Rolle, the English hermit mystic...
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    Crystal Palace, to design Mentmore. Paxton was responsible for the ridge and furrow glass roof which covered the central hall, designed to imitate the...
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    of medieval ridge and furrow ploughing. Mansmoor Closes were enclosed very early, before 1622, and are important from both a landscape and archaeological...
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