Ridge and furrow at Mursley, Buckinghamshire

Photograph taken February 1988 © Crown copyright. Historic England Archive ref: nmr 4209/26

An aerial view of surviving earthworks at Mursley showing medieval ploughed land in the form of ridge and furrow. The earthworks are created by the ox-driven plough and are slightly curved so that it was easier to turn the plough at the end of a field.

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Buckinghamshire Mursley

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Medieval (Middle Ages) (1066 - 1484)

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"Wills, Shaw and Friese-Greene Ready to Film". This was a publicity shot for the foundation of the Aerofilms aerial photography company. It was taken at the London Aerodrome, Hendon. Francis Lewis Wills was a former Royal Naval Air Service Observer and co-founder of Aerofilms. Claude Friese-Greene, holding the cine-camera, was technical director for Aerofilms in its early days, but is best known as a pioneering cinematographer. We know very little about Shaw, the pilot, probably an AirCo employee.

Ridge and furrow at Mursley, Buckinghamshire

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