How were property lines known / created back in the old days when huge lots of land were owned / claimed?
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Norwegian here:
Where my family lives, they own pretty much the entire valley (farmers), but that valley used to be home to maybe 50 families, all with their own plot of land. So when farmer A, had two sons, they would get 50/50 of the land. And they would then build up stone fences (just stacked stones) to fence it off. They would then tell the local gvt whenever practical the name of this plot of land. This has been more or less in place in the same way since Viking times.
Within the last 50ish years, most of those farms have died out, and my family has bought up one by one plot for their farm (small farms arent viable anymore, so it has to be one family – one area), they have kept all the names. So if you go in the maps today, there are still officially 5acre plots marked off as “Olavs land” or funny names like “Nosebleed hill”.
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