Wey

Modern equivalent

Wool: 182 pounds = 82.55 kilograms

A traditional heavy British bulk weight unit used for commodities like wool and salt.

The wey varied more than almost any other British unit, and deliberately so: it described what a given commodity was customarily sold in rather than a fixed mass. A wey of wool was 182 pounds, being thirteen stone, while a wey of cheese in Essex ran to 336 pounds and a wey of salt to a different figure again. Two weys made a wool pack, which is how the unit connects to the export trade that made medieval England wealthy.

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