PERRY, Terraced Cultivation and Irrigation. 



Hitchin), Carmarthenshire, Llangollen, Yorkshire, the 

 Cheviots, the Tweed valley, Peebles, Argyle, and in 

 several parts of Ireland. Some of these terraces were 

 supported by stone walls.- Sir Laurence Gomme says : — 

 " Although of one place Mr. Chambers states ' there is no 

 trace of masonry in there construction,' he says of the 

 ground round Dunsapie that 4 it is quite evident that (the 

 terraces) have been carefully formed with a facing of wall 

 composed of rough blocks, and the faces of some of them 

 are so well defined and steep that it is barely possible to 

 climb them,' and ' the pastoral ground over which they 

 extend has many rough blocks scattered over it.' ' Sir 

 Laurence Gomme goes on to say " Now though there does 

 not appear to be any sign of such constructive evidence in 

 the more southern examples, it is open to remark that the 

 lapse of ages account for the stone facing having been 

 gradually removed, or that in some districts where stone 

 was not plentiful some other material was used for the 

 purpose of construction. For instance, of the Wilts 

 examples Mr. Scrope says the late Mr. Cunningham 

 informed him that it was ' a practice to dig in these 

 lynchets for flints.' " 



Among others, Canon Greenwell mentions terraces in 

 England. 4 He says " terraces of a peculiar construction 

 are found throughout large and various districts of Britain. 

 They still remain in some parts of the Wolds, as for 



instance near Carnaby These terraces have been 



considered by many persons, and I think with every 

 probability, to be the places upon which some cereal crop 

 was grown under a system of agriculture not quite 

 intelligible to us." 5 



-' Op. cit., pp. 76, 89. 



3 Op. tit., pp. 89-90. 



4 " British Barrows," Oxford, 1877. 

 6 Op. ci(., p. 114. 



