Convert palmus (ancient Roman palm) to barleycorn
Selected category: length.
Definition and details for palmus (ancient Roman palm):
Palmus was used by ancient Romans as a unit of length equal to 7.3925 cm.
Definition and details for barleycorn:
Barleycorn is an old English unit of distance equal to 1/3 inch or about 8.47 millimeters. In farming societies was very common to use seeds as units of length. Barley was a basic crop in England. So barleycorn was a useful unit.