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Early weights and measures are confusing to modern minds, accustomed to precision in such matters. Domesday Book supplies a vast amount on detailed information on these early units which illuminates the problems associated with them and prevents spurious exactitude.
For these measures of area and capacity, see:
early measures acre
amber arpent
bovate carucate
furlong hides
hoccus league
perch ploughland
quarter rod
sester stick
sulung teamland
virgate yoke.