Those conversions varied all over the place. But they originated in a system of ...

JoeAltmaier 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Rulers of the Ancient World: period correct measur...

Those conversions varied all over the place. But they originated in a system of doubling. Used to be two quarts per pottle, two pottles per gallon, and so on from there (peck, kenning, bushel, strike, coomb)