Furlong in most applications. Five furlongs are about 1.0 kilometre ( is the exact value, according to the international conversion). The name "furlong" derives from the Old English words ' (furrow) and ' (long). Dating back at least to early Anglo-Saxon times, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open field (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). The furlong (meaning furrow length) was the distance a team of oxen could plough without resting. This was standardised to be exactly 40 rods or 10 chains. The system of long furrows arose
Eustace L. Furlong Eustace L. Furlong Eustace L. Furlong was a paleontologist and fossil preparator noted for his work on ancient mammals and the Mesozoic reptiles of California. Furlong was born to a family with deep roots in the California area and spent his childhood in San Francisco. In 1900 he began attending the University of California at Berkeley. The next year he began preparing vertebrate fossils for Berkeley paleontologist John C. Merriam. In 1902 and 1903 Furlong participated into several fossil hunting expeditions to Shasta County. On these expeditions Furlong collected alongside Annie Montague Alexander. Although Furlong himself found several of their