Subject: Re: Whitesmith - Lead

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 12:23:31 -0400

Tombguard asked about the reference to lead and a reference to a whitesmith
working with it.  I never heard of it.  Plumbers got their name from working
with lead( "plumbum(?)" the latin word for lead,) in that they made lead pipe
for conducting water.  Being latin in origin, I expect it was the Romans that
originated it.

With all that lead in their water I expect most Romans were pretty heavy.

Kent  :o)

PS Robert, whose tomb do you guard?