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WATTLE AND DAB

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 419 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WATTLE AND DAB , a
term
  in architecture (Lat. cratitius) applied to a
wall
  made with upright stakes with withes
twisted
  between them and then plastered over. It is probably one of the oldest systems of construction; the Egyptians employed the stems of maize for the upright stakes; these were secured together with withes and covered over with mud, the upper portions of the maize stems being left uncut at the top, to in-crease the height of the enclosure; and these are thought by
Professor
 
Petrie
  to have given the origin for the cavetto cornice of the temples, the torus moulding representing the heavier coil of withes at the top of the fence
wall
 . Vitruvius (ii. 8) refers to it as being employed in Rome. in the
middle
  ages in England it was employed as a framework for clay chimneys.


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