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A Plough was a team of 8 oxen + one man + the plough itself. When people began using horses to plough, one horse + a plough gave rise to another measure - the Rod, the length of a plough team from the horses nose to the heel of the farmer. |
A Plough was a team of 8 oxen + one man + the plough itself. When people began using horses to plough, one horse + a plough gave rise to another measure - the Rod, the length of a plough team from the horses nose to the heel of the farmer. |
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A Rod is equal to 5.5 yards, 11 cubits, 5.0292 meters, 16.5 feet, or of a statute mile, and even today parcels of land for growing food privately, called Allotments, and rented from Local Authorities are usually 17 rods or submultiples in size 17 rods being the area also reckoned to be able to support a family of four people. |
A Rod is equal to 5.5 yards, 11 cubits, 5.0292 meters, 16.5 feet, or of a statute mile, and can also be a square measure, and even today parcels of land for growing food privately, called Allotments, and rented from Local Authorities are usually 17 rods or submultiples in size 17 rods being the area also reckoned to be able to support a family of four people. |
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Use in the USA
The main topic lists hundreds as being common in New England, yet the part about hundreds in the USA only mentions states conventionally thought of as in the Mid-atlantic.
- Changed; article no longer mentions New England. Akb4 13:01, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Wapentake
Wapentake is listed under the See also section but then Wapentake redirects back to this Hundred (division) article. Personally I think there should be a separate article for Wapentake, otherwise this is a looping link. 194.203.110.127 10:28, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Centuriation
Any possible relationship between hundred an centuriation, the word used by Roman surveyors?
- Centuria An area of land equal to 100 heredia.
- Centuriation Limitatio, or, the division of land in which limites divide the land into regular squares or rectangles.
- Century A square or rectangle of a centuriation often divided into 100 plots of land.
Disdero 16:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Hierarchy
Is there a listing of the complete traditional hierarchy of land sizes? (Hundreds < shires < counties (?)) --JD79 16:30, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
anachronism
The coexistence on a map of Cornish hundreds and a reference to the'Celtic Sea' is a severe anachronism----Clive Sweeting
Satakunda vs. Satakunta
I think that "Satakunda" is a Swedish form of the Finnish original term "Satakunta". In modern Finnish Satakunta, not Satakunda means hundred. It might be possible that "kunta" is a loan from the Swedish form "kunda", but I'm not sure. Does someone know which is the original form, kunta or kunda?
Also, in modern Finnish "kunta" means muncipality. I'm not sure if this is just a coincidende or if it is derived from "satakunta", but if it's derived from satakunta, I think it deserves a mention.81.175.134.236 22:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- You are correct. The original term is Satakunta, which is the name of the region still existing. In my opinion, this is the form used for it in present-day English texts, so we should use it. The word kunta seems to have meant any corporation with fixed membership in old Finnish language. In many words, it is still used with this meaning: ylioppilaskunta "student union", kadettikunta "corps of cadets". Correspondingly, Satakunta implies the meaning "corporation of hundred". However, this is only an implication, not a certain proof of anything. --MPorciusCato 12:11, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
soilder ratio to hundreds
There is mention of X number of warriors:hundred, there is the centeni mentioned in the introduction, there is mention of Leidang as appling to the Anglo-Saxon culture.
What is the ratio of the various methods?
If you make a connection between land-size and that a certain number of soldiers must come from that land, state and proof that ratio. I do not believe I am the only one hanging on to something like this.
How many Centeni did a warrior get? How many warriors were expected to be supplied for every hundred? Have an average number or a range, use that if it is not a constant. Same with the Anglo-Saxon Fyrd. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.171.208.137 (talk) 00:59, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Ancient land area measurement
Its nothing to do with the romans. A Hundred was 100 Carucate, - a measure of land used in Danelaw (North and Eastern) counties in Domesday. A Carucate was equivalent to a hide and represented the amount of land which could be ploughed by one plough team. A bovate was a measure of land which could be ploughed by one eighth of a plough, in other words equivalent to one eighth of a carucate. Therefore a Hundred was equal to 800 Bovate.
Since a bovate was the area of land reckoned to be needed to support one family, A hundred was the area of land that could easily support a small village or three.
A Plough was a team of 8 oxen + one man + the plough itself. When people began using horses to plough, one horse + a plough gave rise to another measure - the Rod, the length of a plough team from the horses nose to the heel of the farmer.
A Rod is equal to 5.5 yards, 11 cubits, 5.0292 meters, 16.5 feet, or of a statute mile, and can also be a square measure, and even today parcels of land for growing food privately, called Allotments, and rented from Local Authorities are usually 17 rods or submultiples in size 17 rods being the area also reckoned to be able to support a family of four people.
