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Forgotten Scales and Ancient Measures
Explore a crossword featuring obsolete measurement units once used across cultures, revealing historical ways to measure length, weight, and volume.
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Across
  • 1. Weight measure equal to 28 pounds in old English system
  • 2. Medieval measure roughly equal to a cubit for cloth
  • 3. Unit of length used to measure water depth
  • 4. Unit of dry volume used for agricultural produce
  • 7. Traditional unit of length equal to 5.5 yards
  • 9. Obsolete unit of mass, 1/24 of an ounce
  • 10. Ancient unit of mass used in trade and weighing metals
  • 11. Also known as a rod, used for land measurement
  • 16. Small unit of weight, based on a single cereal seed
Down
  • 5. Long-distance unit, traditionally about 3 miles
  • 6. Used as a unit of length or weight based on a grain size
  • 8. Large cask capacity used historically in trading
  • 12. Historic unit of mass or volume from ancient Greece
  • 13. Old English unit of distance equivalent to 220 yards
  • 14. Distance unit used in surveying, 66 feet long
  • 15. Old volume measure, varied by region and used for liquids
  • 17. Ancient Babylonian weight measure, precursor to talent
  • 18. Ancient Spanish unit of length, roughly a forearm's length

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