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On this Wikipedia stone house seasoning language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article is about the European unit of mass.

For Asian uses of ‘stone’, see Picul. BLW Wool Weight with the Royal Arms of England. The name “stone” derives from the use of stones for weights, a practice that dates back into antiquity. There was no standardised “stone” in the ancient Jewish world, but in Roman times stone weights were crafted to multiples of the Roman pound.

STONE also denotes a certain quantity or weight of some commodities. The Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which applied to all of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, consolidated the weights and measures legislation of several centuries into a single document. The English stone under law varied by commodity and in practice varied according to local standards. In England, merchants traditionally sold potatoes in half-stone increments of 7 pounds. Smithfield market continued to use the 8 lb stone for meat until shortly before the Second World War. In 1661, the Royal Commission of Scotland recommended that the Troy stone be used as a standard of weight and that it be kept in the custody of the burgh of Lanark.

Before the early 19th century, as in England, the stone varied both with locality and with commodity. For example, the Belfast stone for measuring flax equaled 16. The most usual value was 14 pounds. In 1965 the Federation of British Industry informed the British government that its members favoured adopting the metric system. The Board of Trade, on behalf of the government, agreed to support a ten-year metrication programme.

EEC, the stone was removed from the list of units permitted for trade in the United Kingdom. The stone remains widely used in the UK and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e. 72 kilograms” as in most of the other countries, or “158 pounds”, the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US. In many sports in both Britain and Ireland, such as professional boxing, wrestling, and horse racing, the stone is used to express body weights. The use of the stone in the British Empire was varied. In Canada for example, it never had a legal status.