Pottle
Pottle was an English measure of volume for wine and dry goods.
Grain measure
- 1 pottle = 114.5 Parisian cubic inches = 2 3/11 liters ( Reichs Maß or Imperial Standard)
- 1 bottle = 112 7/8 Parisian cubic inches = 2 5/22 liters (Winchester measure)
- 1 Pottle = 113 2/5 Parisian cubic inches = 2 5/9 liters (Old Scottish Wheat Firlot)
Imperial or Imperial Standard
- 74 Pottle = 1 Coom / Comb / Cornock
- 128 Pottle = 1 quarter / seam
- 640 Pottle = 1 tun / Wey
- 1280 Pottle = 1 load / load
The dimensional chain was
- 1 strike = 2 bushels = 8 pecks = 16 gallons = 32 pottle = 64 quarters = 128 pints = 3663 Parisian cubic inches = 72 ½ liters
Wine and brandy measure
- 1 pottle = 114.5 Parisian cubic inches = 2 3/11 liters (Reichs Maß or Imperial Standard)
- 1 bottle = 112 Parisian cubic inches = 2 8/9 liters (old wine measure)
- 1 bottle = 116 1/4 Parisian cubic inches = 2 3/10 liters (old beer measure)
Imperial or Imperial Standard
- 1 bottle = 2 quarts = 4 pints
- 2 pottles = 1 gallon
- 36 pottles = 1 Rundlet / Kilderkin
- 63 pottles = 1 barrel
- 84 pottles = 1 tierce
- 126 pottles = 1 hogshead
- 168 pottles = 1 punchion
- 202 pottles = 1 pipe / butt
- 504 pottles = 1 do
Wheat beer / ale
- 16 pottles = 1 firkin
- 32 pottles = 1 Kilderkin
- 64 pottles = 1 barrel
- 96 pottles = 1 hogshead
- 768 pottles = 1 load / load
Hopped beer, porter
- 18 pottles = 1 firkin
- 36 pottles = 1 Kilderkin
- 72 pottles = 1 barrel
- 108 pottles = 1 hogshead
- 216 pottles = 1 pipe / butt
- 432 pottles = 1 do
literature
- Franz Wilhelm Klenner: Handbook for the topographical trade map of the Austrian imperial state. Hof- und Staats-Aerarial-Druckerei, Vienna 1833, p. 231.
- Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 257
- Robert Hamilton: An introduction to merchandize. Printed by and for J. Hunter, Edinburgh 1799, p. 227.