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In the background, cubic and round stones can be seen. There are four main categories of stone in use today, all of which come with different weights. The weight of the stones is traditionally measured arroba (12.5 kg) but normally given in kg today. the zilindroa , usually weighing 8, 9 or 10 arroba (100, 112.5 or 125 kg)
Armourstone is a generic term for broken stone with stone masses between 100 and 10,000 kilograms (220 and 22,050 lb) (very coarse aggregate) that is suitable for use in hydraulic engineering. Dimensions and characteristics for armourstone are laid down in European Standard EN13383. [ 1 ]
Stones used in competition were usually inscribed with their weight, measured in kan (貫) (a unit of approximately 3.75 kg (8 lb)), and if not naturally smooth, were often sculpted into a roughly oval shape. [5] Some strength-stones have become tourist attractions due to the legends attached to them.
Stone 5 depicts a deer's head and Stone 6 depicts the head of an unidentified animal. Both animal heads are carved in sharp relief; the eyes (circles with dot pupils) and mouths (straight lines) are rendered much more primitively than those in Stone 3. Stones 5 and 6 are usually grouped together on the assumption they came from the same carving.
Among other known ancient Irish stones are the Aughrim Graveyard Stone which weighs 115 kg (254 lb) and meant to be shouldered, the Faha Stones which are a pair weighing 162 kg (357 lb) and 112 kg (247 lb), and the 215 kg (474 lb) Flag of Denn, which is a heavy, almost perfectly rectangular stone associated with strong men of the parish who ...
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The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
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