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Description: | Measures an ell and imperial yard each in 1/2,1/4,1/16 and 1/32nd parts
"Banff official measure for a yard and an ell (1830-50)."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"Standard weights and measures, such as this yard measure, were necessary for honest trading. Until recently each burgh had its own standards which applied in the area round about. In Aberdeen the weighhouse governed such matters. Now such things are governed from London and Brussels. This is a standard length measure from the burgh of Banff, Banffshire, in use between 1830 and 1850. It measures an ell on one side and an imperial yard on the other, each in 1/2, 1/4, 1/16th and 1/32nd parts. It is made of wood with the lengths cut into the staff and the ends of each measure are bound with brass."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1830-1850 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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