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Ramskou, Thorkild: Lindholm Høje: a Danish viking period field
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LINDHOLM H0JE
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Fig. 12. Traces of horses’ hooves and human feet
to the north of the strips near to the wheel-tracks,
seen from east. Photo AHM. d
Spuren von Pferdehufen und FuEspuren eines
Menschen am Nordrand der Ackerbeete in der
Nahe der Radspuren, von Osten gesehen.
Fig. 13. Section through strips. The thick layer of
shifting sand is overlying the vaulted Viking Age
strips. Photo AHM.
Schnitt durch Ackerbeete. Die dicke Flugsand-
schicht iiberlagert die gewolbten Ackerbeete der
Wikingerzeit.
ridges, and the seed can lie on the curved bed
without being spoiled by surplus water. A
similar ploughing method has been in gen-
eral use in Poland as well as farther east. The
Polish fields with ridges have been carefully
described by the Swedish traveller, Georg
Silen. He also notes that the ready removal
of surplus water was the main reason for use
of this method. Moreover, he writes:
„When I travelled through Poland in
1757, and saw there the growing crop stand-
ing free of water and ice, though no ditches
were being used ... then I wondered why
our forefathers, who had for centuries
waged war in this land, had not brought
back to us such a simple art, which in a land
devoid of people could save thousands of
days’ work. If my road had lain homewards,
as surely as it took me away from my father-
land, then I would certainly have enlisted
some Polish farm-boy only in order to
shame us other farmers at home; for the skill
is otherwise not so great that we could not
put it into practice without some lasting
example. All that is necessary is to set a field
up in narrow ridges, two or three ells wide,
not unlike beds in an orchard. It is known
how these are made with the plough. A
straight furrow is set up for the length of the
field. The plough is turned and a second
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Fig. 12. Traces of horses’ hooves and human feet
to the north of the strips near to the wheel-tracks,
seen from east. Photo AHM. d
Spuren von Pferdehufen und FuEspuren eines
Menschen am Nordrand der Ackerbeete in der
Nahe der Radspuren, von Osten gesehen.
Fig. 13. Section through strips. The thick layer of
shifting sand is overlying the vaulted Viking Age
strips. Photo AHM.
Schnitt durch Ackerbeete. Die dicke Flugsand-
schicht iiberlagert die gewolbten Ackerbeete der
Wikingerzeit.
ridges, and the seed can lie on the curved bed
without being spoiled by surplus water. A
similar ploughing method has been in gen-
eral use in Poland as well as farther east. The
Polish fields with ridges have been carefully
described by the Swedish traveller, Georg
Silen. He also notes that the ready removal
of surplus water was the main reason for use
of this method. Moreover, he writes:
„When I travelled through Poland in
1757, and saw there the growing crop stand-
ing free of water and ice, though no ditches
were being used ... then I wondered why
our forefathers, who had for centuries
waged war in this land, had not brought
back to us such a simple art, which in a land
devoid of people could save thousands of
days’ work. If my road had lain homewards,
as surely as it took me away from my father-
land, then I would certainly have enlisted
some Polish farm-boy only in order to
shame us other farmers at home; for the skill
is otherwise not so great that we could not
put it into practice without some lasting
example. All that is necessary is to set a field
up in narrow ridges, two or three ells wide,
not unlike beds in an orchard. It is known
how these are made with the plough. A
straight furrow is set up for the length of the
field. The plough is turned and a second