The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

CHAPTER IV.

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THE OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM TRACED IN SAXON TIMES--THE SCATTERING OF THE STRIPS ORIGINATED IN THE METHODS OF CO-ARATION.

1. The village fields under Saxon rule were open fields 105

2. The holdings were composed of scattered strips 110

3. The open-field system of co-aration described in the ancient laws of Wales 117