At 21:10 +0000 9/11/00, Peter Hutchison wrote:
>One architectural use of lead that I do know of. The Greeks and I think the
>Romans used lead to secure ironwork to stonework. Such jobs as securing the
>iron "staples" (which have a proper name which I have forgotten) that
>secured the stones in, for example, the lintels of the temples.
And this reminds me that the late William Rostoker once told me that
he had been asked to examine some of these Greek 'staples'
metallographically, and found that in a number of cases the iron
staple wasn't there, just the lead covering.
Don Wagner
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