I noticed, on the Faroes, round the oldest settlements, that the highest parts of the workable land, just before it got too steep, or turned into a vertical wall of basalt, had intermittent banks like lynchets. I couldn't see anyone working on them at the time, but it looked as if it was done to make it possible to go up and scythe the grass without falling down. They certainly weren't used for any crop other than grass. There were grass windrows in some of the lower fields, but we couldn't work out how it dried. One of the Faroese simply said "it was dried". No sign of haycocks, or the supports for them. Or plastic wrapped rolls of silage. And absolutely no way the grass up slope could be cut with machines.

I bored my companions to death over Gatwick commenting on the field patterns, where my family used to live, and so on. A lot of Sussex, east and south of Gatwick, which is obviously on a big flat bit, is too up-and-downy to be worked by huge machines which need the hedges taken down. It's constructed on ridges running East West, with deep valleys cut into the clay in between them, so the field system hasn't been lost to prairie farming, like East Anglia. (Apparently, in the Weald, medieval peasants held small parcels of land for rent, rather than strips for labour, their holding developed from forest clearance, which would have led to the current system, without enclosing the commonland.)