Interesting link, Doug. Thanks. Indeed, agriculture was well organized in that period, that's what the archaeaologists are trying to illustrate in this series. Same area as the snowy 800 scene, but with the camera on the opposite eastside looking west. Small village moved north 300m, and the whole 'high' (very relative in Holland) area taking into production. Mainly rye (summer and winter), so the fields will be quite monotonous, I'm afraid (easy though). Some flax on certain fields.
More people, and more sheep, so the sandy heathland on the right is overgrazed and due to open up. Deep tracks made by carts going north (Groningen). The open sand eventually would endanger villages centuries later, and therefore, at the beginning of the 1900's State Forestry plants enormous amounts of trees, which are also welcomed as poles to keep coal mining tunnels in the south of Holland from collapsing. So, there's a little history
