Open-pan salt making from lead using wood as a fuel. In Britain they established towns for salt production at Droitwich in Worcestershire, and Nantwich, Middlewich and Northwich in Cheshire. In the early Middle Ages these developed into the 'wich' towns of Cheshire. Small 'wich' houses containing several lead pans to evapourate the brine into salt, clustered around brine springs within each of the towns. The open-pan process continued largely unchanged throughout the medieval period. A 17th-century German wood-cut by Georgius Agricola shows the process in detail. Excavated evidence has uncovered wooden rakes to draw salt crystals to the side of the pan, and
Esperanto words with the suffix -um (from "reto" 'net, Internet'), and "urbumi" 'to go into town' (from "urbo" 'town, city'). These latter words are not yet in dictionaries. The following is a fairly complete list of words with a reasonable degree of acceptance and that have not been covered above. Esperanto words with the suffix -um Esperanto derivation is for the most part regular and predictable: One can normally understand new words that are built upon known roots, and can create new words on the fly while speaking. However, there is a suffix "-um-" that has no inherent meaning, but derives words that cannot be readily