Butcher's stone
Butcher's stone was an English unit of mass and can be translated as meat and fish weight. It was not even half the weight of Stone at 6.35 kilograms .
- 1 Butcher's stone = 8 Imperial Standard Avoir du pois pounds = 3.63 kilograms
literature
- Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 46.