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    The carucate or carrucate (Medieval Latin: carrūcāta or carūcāta) was a medieval unit of land area approximating the land a plough team of eight oxen could...
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  • "bunaria") – a unit of area, equal to about 120 ares or 12,000 square metres Carucate Cawnie Decimal Dessiatin Ground Hide Juchart Jugerum Katha Lessa or Lecha...
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    ploughland or carucate 100–120 acres (40–49 ha). However, in the rest of England a parallel system was used, from which the Danelaw system of carucates and bovates...
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    was subject to considerable local variation similar to the variation in carucates, virgates, bovates, nooks, and farundels. These may have been multiples...
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  • carruca also bore a coulter and moldboard. It gave its name to the English carucate. The heavy iron moldboard plow was developed in China's Han Empire in the...
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    a virgate. As such, the oxgang represented a parallel division of the carucate. Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "yardland, n.". Oxford University Press...
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  • yardlands or virgates. It was hence nominally equivalent in area to a carucate, a unit used in the Danelaw. The Anglo-Saxon word for a hide was hid (or...
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    yoke. The arable land is 5 carucates. In demesne there is 1 carucate and 17 villeins, with 3 boarderers, having 4 carucates. There is wood for the pannage...
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    mention simply records its existence: "In Wetwang the archbishop 13+1⁄2 carucates". The mention is under "Warter Hundred" on original folio 381V: East Riding...
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    virgate was the amount of land tillable by two oxen in a ploughing season. A carucate was the amount of land tillable by a team of eight oxen in a ploughing...
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