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Hello list Atkinson's '"Discoverie and Historie of Gold Mynes in Scotland'' of 1619 refers to a stamping mill erected by Bevis Bulmer at Longcleuch Head near Leadhills: "And at Lang-clough-head Mr Bulmer made a stamping mill, called in forraine countries Tancanagno. Many such as it are used at the West Indies; and in Cornewall, within the kingdom of England, it is sometimes called a plash-mill, where there be many of them made to dress tynn ..." What sort of a stamping mill was a Tancanagno? And in which 'forraine countries' was it found? I can't find the word in Fay's 'Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry' - can anybody help? John