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Ruth,

I think Worcestershire recently carried out a ridge and furrow recording project so it might be worth asking them as well.

This is something I have been thinking about for some time in Warwickshire. Since I carried out the HLC project back in 2006 it was apparent that we have a number of different sets of records for ridge and furrow in the HER and like Nick one day I would like to sort it out in some sort of meaningful way.

So we have the following ridge and furrow related datasets:

Data from the Midlands Open Fields Project based on aerial photos from the early 1990s, this was originally produced in hard format and then subsequently digitised into GIS. This covers the whole county but there are some issues with it as a dataset.
Data from something I call the 'Medieval Landscapes Project' where ridge and furrow (along with medieval settlement extents, woodland, common and water sources) were recorded at a parish level in the late 1980's early 1990s. This was drawn in great detail recording every ridge (or is it furrow?) on large acetate overlays which have subsequently been digitised. Only around 40% of parishes in Warwickshire were ever completed.
NMP ridge and furrow records, recorded direct to GIS using the method previously described. This again covers about 40% of the county.
Individual Monument records for ridge and furrow which mainly record extant ridge and furrow (extant at the time the Monument was created), mostly polygons but some points.
HLC records in the form of previous HLC Type 'Medieval Open Fields', recent aerial photos at the time along with the above sources were used to identify these areas, some of it purely from field patterns.
SHINE records for Countryside Stewardship which include areas of extant ridge and furrow. The process we have adopted is to make sure we have Monument records for any extant ridge and furrow. We have found the Lidar data useful for this (as well as recent aerial photos) which means we are also picking up for the first time ridge and furrow in woodland.

The problem is that all of these are disparate datasets recording ridge and furrow in different ways using different sources of information.

So my grand plan is to try and put all of these together to create one single GIS layer showing all the ridge and furrow in the county recording the last time we knew it was extant and, where relevant, when it appears to have been levelled. It would be nice to record further detail such as direction, headlands etc but I think it would take too long.

In terms of what this means for recording ridge and furrow as Monuments then maybe we would use this GIS layer to define the Monuments as different areas of extant and levelled ridge and furrow and maybe separate them between pre 1880s parishes. As pointed out by others this would end up covering most of the county though.

The biggest problem I have is when we will do this, I have been thinking about it for over 10 years and not made much progress!

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On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 09:57, Evans, Sally <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Ruth,

As Nick says Aerial Investigation and Mapping Projects (NMP) have mapped lots of ridge and furrow. We use a schematic approach so outline the block of r&f and then a line or arrow for the direction. The attribute data for each individual feature will tell you if the r&f is levelled or extant. There is a little bit of discussion on this in my review https://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=16333 (p78).

The monument record is usually created at the whole parish level (one for med r&f, one for pm r&f/narrow r&f) with a monument polygon for the parish (latterly this has been sub-divided into smaller discreet parcels, but still the same UID). We know this is not a great solution for HERs as the polygons are overly large. I wonder if within a GIS environment this is less important - could the attribute data and mapping suffice? The problem is that r&f is quite literally everywhere. For the project we did fairly recently in SW Cambridgeshire, the whole 374 sq km was covered. Report here: https://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=16178

I hope that helps,

Sally

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From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Boldrini
Sent: 24 June 2019 09:37
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Subject: Re: Strategies for recording Ridge and Furrow

Hi Ruth

Various National Mapping programmes have recorded this (based on coverage we have) so might be worth seeing if they have a manual – as that might be a good place to start?

But this is likely to be something people are going to have to consider in light of the NRHE to HER project, which will involve bringing in lots of R&F records from the NRHE and NMP into HERs, so might be worth asking some people who have started that as well to see what they have come up with?

What we do here is worry about it later, as I am trying to get a project up to deal with R&F county wide (if we can get dosh) so we can work out what we know is left compared to what we know existed (ie using existing records) and if we can sort that, will probably ask you what you came up with…

But are you talking about a field survey to see what you have, or just how you record it in the HER?

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From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Beckley Ruth
Sent: 24 June 2019 09:28
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Subject: Strategies for recording Ridge and Furrow

Hello all!

We are looking to come up with a consistent method of recording our ridge and furrow in Cambs and I was wondering what other counties do. We don’t have an awful lot so like to highlight where it is and where it has gone.

Questions we are thinking about are recording large areas vs piecemeal, recording loss and recording direction. Does anyone have a strategy for dealing with it or just record it as and when you see it?

Many thanks

Ruth

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