CONTENTS 



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INTRODUCTION 3 



CHAPTER I 

 The Two- and Three-Field System 17 



CHAPTER II 



The Earlier History of the Two- and Three-Field System . 50 



CHAPTER III 

 Early Irregular Fields within the Midland Area 83 



CHAPTER IV 



The Later History of the Midland System in Oxfordshire 

 AND Herefordshire 109 



CHAPTER V 



The Celtic System 157 



CHAPTER VI 



The Influence of the Celtic System in England 206 



CHAPTER VII 

 The Kentish System 272 



CHAPTER VIII 

 The East Anglian System 305 



CHAPTER IX 

 The Lower Thames Basin 355 



CHAPTER X 

 Results and Conjectures 403 



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