Water powered grain mills in the Anglo-Saxon period
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| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | The author |
| Year of publication | 2021 - |
| Languages | |
| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | Economics & commerce > Feeding the World |
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| Scope & content | The evolution of watermill use in England. First Paragraph: The use of water powered grain mills during this period can be directly related to the evolution of a flexible low capital input cereal farming economy in southern and eastern England between the 5th and 11th centuries, a system which depended on the fact that the weather in these regions was usually warm and dry enough in late summer to allow crops to be air-dried in the fields where they were harvested. Such were the advantages of air drying crops in the harvest field that the practice was to endure as a key factor in the mixed farming regimes of southern and eastern England until the 1950s when the current method of harvesting and conserving grain crops, based on combine harvesters and grain driers, was introduced |