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wattle and daub  

Definition

  • A building techniques in which walls were made by plastering mud (daub, possibly with sand and plant fibers) over a lattice of branches and sticks (wattle). Interwoven twigs or thin split timbers were used.

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Entry terms

  • wattle
  • wattle-and-daub

Source

  • Kipfer, B. A. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. p. 598.

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https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/defcthesaurus/wattle_and_daub/6.6

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