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Spatial Units & Metrology
Old English
Sulung (Kentish Double-Hide)
OE sulung / sulh ('plough, ploughland')
The distinctive land assessment unit of the Kingdom of Kent, representing the land that could be tilled by an eight-oxen plough team, equivalent to two West Saxon hides.
The sulung was divided into four yokes (*iuga*), reflecting the unique agrarian structure, partible inheritance (*gavelkind*), and administrative continuity of Kent.
“…aliquam partem terrae iuris mei, id est unum sulungum in illo loco qui appellatur…”
S 8 — Kentish Grant in Sulungs
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