Liming and Agriculture in the Central Pennines: The use of lime in land improvement from the late thirteenth century to c. 1900

by David S. Johnson

This book focuses on the historic use of lime as a soil additive, and sets liming in the context of agricultural land improvement alongside draining, paring, marling and the use of other soil conditioners. It examines the time frame during which liming is known to have been practised, and investigates whether or not widespread liming was largely a phenomenon of the era of parliamentary enclosure. It looks into the spatial extent within which land...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140730738X
• ISBN13: 9781407307381
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 11.6"