RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Barlaston. CUL-DAR63.94. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.


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Barlaston – [illeg] from name for almost certainly 169 years

(about 80 years ago when wheat very dear) partly only field ploughed

field ploughed about 50 years ago – Frank says by eye no difference in depth of furrows at bottom & top of slopes – in the field measured, on averages of 6 measurement over the furrows actually 3/4 of inch deeper!

Field near Leaves Green depth of mould soil in furrow on average (rough measurement) 5 inches – on ridges 3 1/2 inches when there was a slope – when field level, difference 4 & 3 1/2 – furrows parallel to hill of village.

Depth of furrows – nothing can be made out

William near Stonehenge in Salisbury 6 miles from Stonehenge – furrow at top 5 inches deep near bottom 3 1/4 – ridge of facing at bottom [2 words illeg=] slope 7° at top, at 11° or 12 & the top

Near Beaulieu – furrow slope in steepest part & summit sloped up in lower part – slope only 2° or 3°

Stonehenge 3/4 of [miles] furrow [vanished] at base of slope – great slope 8° to 10°

Deeper when slope [illeg] mid view – [illeg] near base of slope a furrow [2 words illeg=]


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