February 20
Posted by sydney on Feb 20th, 2009
- 1793: February 20, 1793 – Wheeled much dung into the garden.
- 1792: February 20, 1792 – Snow about four inches deep. 3 Bantam hens lay.
- 1790: February 20, 1790 – As the Surveyor of Gosport-turnpike was mending the road in Rumsdean bottom, he found several Roman coins, one of which was silver. Hence we may conclude that the remarkable entrenchments in that valley, whatever use may have been made of them since, were originally Roman. There is a tradition that they were frequently occupied during the grand rebellion n the time of Charles the first, a period in which many skirmishes happened in these parts, as at Cherriton, Alton, &c. These trenches must have been a post of consequence, because they are on a great road, & between large sloping woods. At the S.W. end of this valley, towards Filmer-hill, in a place called Feather-bed-lane, are three large contiguous barrows which seem to indicate that near the spot some considerable battle must have been fought in former times.
- 1789: February 20, 1789 – Dug a plot of ground for the beans.
- 1786: February 20, 1786 – Bror Henry & his son Gil. came.
- 1783: February 20, 1783 – Men sow pease in their fields, & horse-beans.
- 1779: February 20, 1779 – Field-crickets have opened their holes, & stand in the mouth of them basking in the sun! They do not usually appear ’til March.
- 1774: February 20, 1774 – The high wind last night blowed down a large apple tree in the orchard.
- 1773: February 20, 1773 – Trufles continue to be found in my Bro Henry’s grove of beeches: tho’ the season is near at an end. It is supposed that seven or eight pounds are taken annually at that little spot. My Bro & the trufle-hunter divide them equally between them.
- 1769: February 20, 1769 – Bees gather on the Crocuss.
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