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About these units
Rood (rood)
A rood equals 1/4 of an acre, or 10,890 square feet, and was used in medieval and early modern England for land measurement. The rood often appeared in agricultural records, taxation documents, and estate descriptions. Farmers used the rood to describe smaller plots of arable land, orchards, and grazing fields. Although obsolete today, the rood reflects the practical needs of historical agrarian societies, where manageable sub-acres allowed fine-grained recordkeeping and land division within larger estates.
Square Dekameter (dam²)
A square dekameter equals 100 square meters and is used in agriculture, sports field planning, and land measurement in some metric-oriented countries. It is particularly useful for measuring the footprint of small buildings, gardens, or sport courts. Landscape architects and civil engineers may express project areas in dam² when m² values become too large and hectares too large-scale. Although not as common as the square meter or hectare, the dam² exemplifies the flexibility of the metric system for scaling area units to suit practical needs.