Carucate
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The carucate was a unit of assessment for tax found in most of the Danelaw counties of England. The word derives from caruca, Latin for a plough. It is analogous to the hide, the measurement of land for tax assessment used outside the Danelaw counties.
In the Domesday Book the carucate was nominaly 120 acres (490,000 m²), based on the area a plough team of eight oxen could till in a year. A carucate was sub-divided into bovates and these were based on the area a single oxen could till in a year, they were therefore one eighth of a carucate.
The tax levied on each "carucate" of land came to be known as "carucage".
