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Up for it – slang for being enthusiastic/willing to participate. For example: “I like bowling, I’m up for it tonight.” Krismer M, Töchterle U, Goldenber G, Tropper P, Vavtar F (2013) Mineralogical and Petrological investigations of early bronze age copper smelting remains from the Kiechlberg (Tyrol, Austria). Archaeometry 55(5):923–945
Furger AR (2018) Antike Schmelztiegel. Archäologie und Archäometrie der Funde aus Augusta Raurica, Beitrr Technikgesch 1. Librum Publ., Basel, Frankfurt a.M.
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Slags were collected (with the assistance of smelter staff) in the Tsumeb smelter area during a field campaign in 2012 (GPS coordinates: –19.2255, 17.7226) from the historic reduced Pb blast-furnace slag, produced up to 1996. The smelter was officially commissioned in 1963 by Tsumeb Corporation Limited (TCL). At the time of working, the smelter consisted of a Pb section (including a refinery), a Cu section, and plants that produced Cd, Na antimonite and As 2O 3. Production commenced in early 1964, with 3500 tonnes of Cu and 6000 tonnes of Pb being produced per month. The slag originated from the second stage of the reverberatory furnaces that produced Pb from Cu-depleted feed material. This part of the smelter is currently being dismantled (Dundee Precious Metals, personal communication, 2021).
Gassmann G, Yalçın Ü, Hauptmann A (2005) Die archäometallurgischen Materialuntersuchungen zur keltischen Eisneverhüttung in Baden-Württemberg. In: Forsch. Ber. zur Vor- und Frühgesch (ed) In Baden-Württemberg (=Forschungen zur keltischen Eisneverhüttung in Südwestdeutschland), vol 92, pp 84–114 Faff around – If you’re faffing around you look busy, but you’re achieving very little. For example: “I told him to stop faffing around and wash the dishes.” The words skank and ho are recognised - especially from rap music - but are definitely felt to be American imports. All of the others are fully accepted as native :) On the lash – means to drink excessive amounts of alcohol and you may hear Brits saying, “Are you out on the lash tonight?”
Keesmann I, Heege A (1990) Archäometallurgische Untersuchungen an material der Ausgrabung 1984 am “Steinbühl” bei Nörten-Hardenberg, Lkr. Northeim. Nachr Niedersachsens Urgesch 59:87–109 Mangin M, Keesmann I, Birke W, Ploquin A (1992) Mines et métallurgie chez les Éduens – Le district sidérurgique antique et médieval du Morvan-Auxois. In: Ann Littéraire de l’ Univers de Besancon, Paris, p 456 Bob’s your uncle – the origins of this saying and how it is used today differ. The saying originally meant you could get anything or do anything if you had the right connections because it came about after the 20th British Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, famously appointed a nephew into an important political post for which he didn’t have the relevant experience. Today it is more commonly used to say everything is OK. Kassianidou V (2012) Metallurgy and metal work in Enkomi: the early phases. In: Kassianidou V, Papasavvas G (eds) Eastern Mediterranean metallurgy and metalwork in the second millennium BC, A conference in honour of JD Muhly, Nicosia October 2011. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp 94–106
A few were levelled. A few later quarried afresh, as the red stone flakes – “blaes” as they are technically known – found a second life as a construction material. But mainly the bings lay abandoned and ignored. After a while, the villages in their shadows grew used to their silent presence. To enjoy them, even. Frost R, Mavrogeneses JA, Tomkins AG (2002) Partial melting of sulfide ore deposits during medium- and high-grade metamorphism. Can Miner 40:1–18 Anguilano L (2012) Roman lead silver smelting at Rio Tinto: the case study of Corta Lago. PhD-diss, University College London Khalil L, Bachmann HG (1981) Evidence of copper smelting in bronze age Jericho. J Hist Metall Soc 15:103–106Today’s Clayhanger is no utopia, but it’s come a long way since the following photos were taken, all published in the book ‘Memories of Brownhills Past’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. If you can find one, I recommend you get a copy. I won’t caption these, the original descriptions are wonderful; however, I would point out if you’re confused that the bridge in the picture is the one that carried the Walsall Wood Extension, then a mineral railway, over Bridge Street, and stood just about where the entrance to the new pond is today, just beyond the mini-island. As far as I know, no trace of it remains. Fig. 4. Scanning electron micrographs of granulated slag samples. (a) Large melilite (Mll) crystals, Pb droplets, and euhedral spinels (Spl) within a glassy matrix (Gl) (sample T17-2). (b) Spinel blebs associated with Pb droplets embedded in glass containing submicrometric spinel crystals and metallic droplets (sample T18-2). (c) Large Cr-bearing spinel embedded in glass (sample T18-2). (d) Oval blebs of spinel and Pb droplets embedded in Ge-bearing glass (sample T18-2). Phase abbreviations according to Warr ( Reference Warr2021). Gallium and germanium concentrations (in ppm) in individual phases are indicated. Jim jams – is slang for pyjamas and as a student you’ll hear “I think it’s time to put on my jim jams and get into bed – I’m exhausted!” – a lot!
Hanel N, Morstadt B (2014) Der Iglesiente – Eine unbekannte antike Montanlandschaft im Südwesten Sardiniens. Anschnitt 6:214–229
Hauptmann A, Gambaschidze I (2001) Antimon – eine metallurgische Besonderheit aus dem Kaukasus. In: Gambaschidze I, Hauptmann A, Slotta R, Yalcin Ü (eds) Georgien – Schätze aus dem Land des Goldenen Vlies. Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, pp 150–155
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