Question for eridite gardening archaeologists ;)
Alongside the Oxford canal several grassed fields are contoured into long gently mounded beds - at a guess about 10 ft wide, running the length of the field. According to the handbook, these are the relics of 'ridge and furrow' cultivation from the distant past. The effect is like long rows of wide deep beds smothered in turf.
Does anyone know how that method of cultivation worked, who would have been cultivating in this way, and when? ::)