Joch (hills)
Joch may refer to: * Joch (unit of measurement), a historic unit of measurement equivalent to the yoke. * ''Joch'', Austrian word for saddle, often found in place names * Joch, Pyrénées-Orientales Joch (; ca, Jóc) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Joch is located in the canton of Le Canigou and in the arrondissement of Prades. Population See also *Communes of the Pyrénées-Orien ...

Joch (unit Of Measurement)
A yoke was a unit of land measurement used in Kent in England at the time of the Domesday Book for tax purposes. It was equal to a quarter of a ''sulung''. A sulung was the amount of land which could be ploughed by 4 ox-pairs (or approximately 2 hides, thus a yoke was half a hide), therefore a yoke was a pair of oxen, representing the amount of land that could be cultivated by an ox pair. A yoke also described the device used to harness two oxen together (see photo). In early Saxon times nearly all the Weald of Kent, the land between the chalk ridges of the North and South Downs, was covered in ancient broadleaf forest but there are indications that much of what is now Penshurst had been cultivated clearings since Roman days. The Romans left no tangible relics although we have a record of their measurement for land in the "Yokes" of Chested, Vexour, Chafford etc. The yoke is the old Roman '' jugerum'', about 25 ares or 0.625 acres. This word has survived only in Kent. One theor ...
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Saddle (landform)
The saddle between two hills or mountains is the region surrounding the saddle point, the lowest point on the line tracing the drainage divide (the col) connecting the peaks. When, and if, the saddle is navigable, even if only on foot, the saddle of a (optimal) pass between the two massifs, is the area generally found around the lowest route on which one could pass between the two summits, which includes that point which is a mathematically when graphed a relative high along one axis, and a relative low in the perpendicular axis, simultaneously; that point being by definition the col of the saddle. Topography A saddle is the lowest area between two highlands (prominences or peaks) which has two wings which span the divide (the line between the two prominences) by crossing the divide at an angle, and, so is concurrently the local highpoint of the land surface which falls off in the lower direction. That is, the drainage divide is a ridge along the high point of the saddle, as ...
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