CULTIVATION Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Spade cultivation Gardens Rigs and fields Forestry and other first ploughing Enclosed fields, Tynemount, Ormiston, East Lothian Enclosure was the process whereby farmland was divided into areas, each surrounded by hedges or dykes (walls). Most of this took place between the mid 18th and the early 19th centuries. Stone was widely available and therefore widely used. In some areas hedges were planted, generally of thorn but occasionally beech. Once enclosed, land could be used in a more versitile way. Livestock no longer needed to be removed during the growing season and some fields could be used in rotation, for grazing or for fodder (animal feed) crops. Resource pack   1     2     3     4