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But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the
ditch by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is
common enough even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...ing-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower to
a higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you trolling?

Are you really stupid or are you just trying to appear that way?

There you go, as expected. Your picture does not match the picture from
the OP. Height of water intake and outgo matters when siphoning.

The OP asked a) whether there would have been irrigation ditches without
bridges, and b) how did the water get out of the ditch and onto the field
with a pump. My response answered both of those questions. Ask someone for
help if you can't understand that.