07-18-2010, 10:57 AM
Maybe. As in modern farming, collective farms tend to produce more of a single, cash crop--though support fewer people. (Larger farms are more efficient; smaller farms are more productive.) Archeology and records agree that Roman Britain tended to have large, collective farms. In fact, Roman society in Britain seems to have had a large rural component--assumedly those growing grain to export to Rome.
I always thought a head was one cow or bull or steer. Head is used because cattle is a plural word, helping us avoid awkward sentences such as that one. :wink:
I always thought a head was one cow or bull or steer. Head is used because cattle is a plural word, helping us avoid awkward sentences such as that one. :wink:
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
Ron Andrea
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