1 Jan 1668 Jahr - poundstone

Beschreibung:

Probably a natural stone or pebble of a pound weight. 1668 <i>one paire of weigh scales & 1 pundstone, 6s</i>, Selby (YRS47/58). As <i>pundston</i> it is in the Whitby Glossary (1855), said to have been used by farmers whose butter was weighed by <i>the lang pund</i> of twenty-two ounces.

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