On 16-17 November, a meeting was held at the Centro Español de Metrología (Tres Cantos, Madrid), focused on the presentation of studies on historical measurements (weight, length, etc.). This meeting was organised by the University of Cantabria and the research project Cartografía digital de los sistemas metrológicos en la Castilla Moderna (Ref. PID2020-118939GA-I00).
On this occasion, the Vetera Pondera team in Hispania participated with two communications. On the one hand, Dr. Cruces Blázquez Cerrato and Diego Barrios Rodríguez presented the project to the audience both in person and digitally. Afterwards, Diego Barrios Rodriguez made a review of the weights documented in Castilla y León, emphasising the results, but also the problems encountered in their documentation.
Thanks to this first congress, it has been possible to glimpse how the scientific community is interested in the study of the different measurement systems of all periods. Vetera pondera in Hispania hopes that in the future there will be further meetings like this one with a much wider participation.
