"Large slices of land are left unploughed, as boundaries between the alternate ridges of neighbours, in the same plough-gate; which are a perpetual nursery of weeds, besides the loss of so much land lying waste.
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Though best known for his work as a computer scientist, Van de Sompel also made music in his earlier life, including two albums, " Unploughed " and " Not a Festschrift-Geschnitzte Figuren, " with his group, Young Farmers Claim Future.
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Surrounding the village would have been three big fields; these fields were cultivated by peasants who held scattered strips in the many furlongs which made up the fields, every year one of the fields would be left unploughed and would be fertilised by the manure from the local animals.
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After ploughing one of the long sides of the strip, the plough is removed from the ground, moved across the unploughed " headland " ( the short end of the strip ), then put back in the ground to work back down the other long side of the strip.
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Visually, across the rows, there is the land ( unploughed part ) on the left, a furrow ( half the width of the removed strip of soil ) and the removed strip almost upside-down lying on about half of the previous strip of inverted soil, and so on across the field.
