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Ploughgate
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Carucate.
Scotland
A ploughgate was the Scottish equivalent in the south and east of the country. Even more so than in England, the variable land quality in Scotland led to ploughgates of varying sizes, although the area was notionally understood as 100 Scots acres. Many sources say that four ploughgates made up a daugh; in other places, it appears to have been one daugh exactly. As in the Danelaw, ploughgates were subdivided into oxgangs, again usually by eighths.