单词 | cultivation mark |
释义 | > as lemmascultivation mark cultivation mark n. Archaeology an indentation or mark on the soil caused by cultivation in an earlier period. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > soil mark indicating earlier cultivation, etc. cultivation mark1885 crop-mark1935 crop-marking1937 soil mark1939 1885 Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 8 46 The strongest proof of all that they represent vestiges of an old system of cultivation, is to be found in the remarkably close resemblance of these Rangbeck earthworks to what are called ‘reans’ in north-west Yorkshire, which are admitted on all hands to be nothing more than old cultivation marks. 1924 A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton Introd. Surv. Eng. Place-names viii. 156 Air photographs..reveal..trackways and cultivation-marks which would otherwise be overlooked. 2010 M. Carver Birth of Borough iii. 39/2 The few post-holes, the cultivation marks, the drains and the well strongly suggest a post-medieval garden. < as lemmas |
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