As part of the plans to improve the Stonehenge landscape in southern England, farmers are being given grants to return their intensive arable fields to traditional low-density pasture.
Fields close to the World Heritage Site are being sown with native grass seed taken from the army ranges on Salisbury Plain, which largely preserves a landscape which vanished in the surrounding area after the Second World War. The objective is to achieve poor quality pasture on thin chalky soil, supporting a low density of stock, which would mark a return to the style of farming of 1,000 years ago ... Stone Pages Archaeo News
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