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CLD>and the Concorde thrown in for fun).All kinds of mapwork.  Finding the area
CLD>in
CLD>an acre (teh amount of land a person could plow in a day) on  the playgroun

Just butting in from a long way away, I always thought a "hide" was the
amount of land which could be ploughed in a day.  That was my belief,
but now I have looked further.  I note that Herbert Arthur Klein ("The
Science of Measurement", Dover edition, 1988, p. 77 explains a "hide" as
being a household-size area of arable land, and he also notes that it
varies from 60 to 120 acres.  Klein notes the Old English "daieswork" of
about 10 modern square rods or 250 sq metres, the German "tagwerk" of
3407 sq metres (0.84 acre), used in Bavaria into the 1960s, and the
Latin "jugerum", Italian "giornata", the French "journal" and "arpent".

'The German joch (cf. English yoke, as in "yoke of oxen") and acker,
also derived from typical areas covered by plowmen, were also equal to
about the standard English acre . . .'

Thanks for setting me off on a new enquiry: I hope you can use this
information in some way.
peter

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