- soil and
fertility makes its
actual figure wildly variable. The
Danelaw carucates were
subdivided into eighths:
oxgangs or
bovates based on the area a yoked...
- pay
under Edward the Confessor. The
areas of
ploughland were
counted in
carucates: the land a
farmer could manage throughout the year with a team of eight...
- was
subject to
considerable local variation similar to the
variation in
carucates, virgates, bovates, nooks, and farundels.
These may have been multiples...
- Malet. The
manor consisted of five
carucates. It was
divided into
three fees. In the late-13th
century two
carucates belonged to the
barony of Greystock...
- Poitou. In 1086, the book
notes that "In South?
Wingfield Alnoth had two
carucates of land to the geld.
There is land for
three ploughs.
Robert holds it...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
received 110
acres in Suffolk, In perspective, a knight's fee was 5
hides or
carucates (varied widely), each hide was
between 100 and 110 acres,
putting Roland's...
-
called Goda. Goda held 12
carucates of land,
three of
which were held in tax to the Danegeld. The King held
three carucates in
demesne and
three socmen...
