![]() James Britten, in 1880 for example, catalogued a number of different values of the stone in various British towns and cities, ranging from 4 lb to 26 lb. ![]() The Act of 1835 permitted using a stone of 14 pounds for trade but other values remained in use. ![]() Ten years later, a stone still varied from 5 pounds (glass) to 8 pounds (meat and fish) to 14 pounds (wool and "horseman's weight"). It revoked the provision that bales of wool should be made up of 20 stones, each of 14 pounds, but made no provision for the continued use of the stone. The Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which applied to all of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, consolidated the weights and measures legislation of several centuries into a single document. A stone of beef, in London, is the quantity of eight pounds in Hertfordshire, twelve pounds in Scotland sixteen pounds. STONE also denotes a certain quantity or weight of some commodities. The 1772 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica defined the stone: Such weights varied in quality: the Yale Medical Library holds 10 and 50-pound examples of polished serpentine, while a 40-pound example at the Eschborn Museum is made of sandstone. There was no standardised "stone" in the ancient Jewish world, but in Roman times stone weights were crafted to multiples of the Roman pound. The Biblical law against the carrying of "diverse weights, a large and a small" is more literally translated as "you shall not carry a stone and a stone ( אבן ואבן), a large and a small". The name "stone" derives from the use of stones for weights, a practice that dates back into antiquity. The Eschborn Museum's 2nd-century stone weight of 40 Roman pounds (c. 13 kg), beside an ID-1-sized card for scale ![]()
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