A farming system prevalent in medieval lowland Britain whereby two of the three fields were cultivated while the third field was left fallow to recover its fertility. The crops were then rotated so that a different field was left fallow.
three-field system
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- fallow
- manor
- Three-Field System (Russian history)
- farm fragmentation
- Redemption Payments (Russian history)
- Agriculture (history 1450-1789)
- manorial system (system, Europe – in economics, sociology, history)
- Enserfment (Russian history)
- Three-field crop rotation
- 8th Century A.D. (chronology)
- 9th Century A.D. (chronology)
- 10th Century A.D. (chronology)
- Britannia Fields
- Repartition
