jan 1, 1562 - rotten
Description:
Used of soft barren ground although perhaps originally ground covered with decaying vegetation. 1562 <i>in the same Intake there nether </i>[sic] <i>was ... any moorishe, weet sobbed or rotten ground but ... always hayth bene a good and fair ground meet for gyrs </i>[grass]<i> and corne</i>, Rawdon (YRS114/101). In 1682 Thoresby wrote <i>thence over the rotten Moors for many miles without anything observable</i>.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1562
Now
~ 463 years ago