How Big is a Acre of Land

[Gadget(Ian)]

This may give you an idea of the size of fields you are detecting.
An acre (4,840 sq yds) is traditionally the area which can be ploughed by one man in one day (on clay soil? stony soil? using one ox or two? with time off for a ploughman's lunch?)There are 640 acres in a square mile.
Ian.

[Malcolm.mtts]

Acre is approximately half the size of a rugby pitch.... from dead ball line to half way.

So a rugby pitch from dead ball line to dead ball line is around 2 acres in size

[proconsul]

Thanks for that, Malcolm. But for those non-rugby players amongst us, what's that in cricket pitches? 

Geoff

[Gadget(Ian)]

or tennis courts 

[coleggwent(phil)]

i allways thought 1 acre was the size of a football field  wat do i know

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

hmmmm me too. perhaps they have changed the pitch sizes  lol

[Chef Geoff]

hmmmm me too. perhaps they have changed the pitch sizes  lol

That would explain it, I played a charity match for a local veterans side a few years back and I thought the pitch was a damn site bigger than it was in my 20's.

Chef

[Charles Cater]

43,560 square feet
 4,840 square yards
160 square rods
1/640 square mile (that is, 0.001 562 5 sq. mile)
is about 0.404 687 3 hectare

[detectordave]

wot 's that in metric