Carucate

Carucata ( from the Latin Caruca, translated plow; plural: Carucatae; carucate English ) is a derived from England medieval square measure, which was the collection of taxes. The corresponding charges were carucages called. A Carucata includes the arable land that can handle a plow team within a year, and is roughly equivalent to 120 medieval Acre. Here is a plow team of eight oxen calculated from, and accordingly can be a Carucata in eight Bovata (English bovate ) divide.

In a larger scale the Carucata was in the Domesday Book in 1086 incurred used as a square measure, especially in Northern England, in the northern areas of the Midlands and East Anglia. In this area there was in terms of area distributions have a significant impact by Danish settlers, which probably plogslands called the unit and this is then translated the authors of the Domesday Books in carucatæ, the ratio was not always 1:1. In the more Anglo-Saxon regions of England, the system based on Hiden was common. While were merged to 100 Hiden to Hundreds came at the Carucatae the duodecimal to the course, which is typically led to the formation of groups of twelve. Through the Domesday Book, the Carucata spread over the entire Anglo-Norman dominion, which included also parts of Ireland from the end of the 12th century.