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WATTLE AND DAB

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 419 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WATTLE AND DAB , a See also:

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

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