pren wyth [Welsh]

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In South Wales, a unit of length used with land, = 8 cyfelinau = 12 feet. Literally translated, “rod of eight”.

Alfred Neobard Palmer.
Notes on ancient Welsh measures of land.
Archaeologia Cambrensis, vol. 13, no. 49 (January 1896).

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