Score (unit)

The score was a measure of volume in English coalfields around London and near the Thames . It served as a measure for hard coal . It is also known as piece measure and unit of mass.

volume

1 Score = 21 Chaldrons = 84 Vats = 1176 Bushels = 5880 Pecks = about 42013 liters (calculated)
1 Chaldron = 100,856 Parisian cubic inches = 2000.62 liters (10 London Ch. = 7 ½ Ch. Newcastle upon Tyne )
6 Scores = 1 Keel = 8 Chaldron = 120 Baskets = 20 Do's

Piece measure

1 score = 20 pieces

Mass unit

1 score = 51,208 pounds plus 24 lots (Prussia = 16.667 grams ) = 25604.912 kilograms

literature

Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich-Jakob Floerke, Heinrich Gustav Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Ludwig Kossarski, Carl Otto Hoffmann: Economic encyclopedia or general system of state, town, house and agriculture in alphabetical order. Volume 172, Paulische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1839, p. 578.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 394.

[Silber-1] A ^b Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 394.