Has any Goyer ever made a Wattle & Daub hut in the garden?

I think the idea is to use young hazel because it is so springy and therefore easily bent. as kids we played around with mud/straw etc making dens on bent sticks. great til it rained.

are you making a structure for your garden diane or just 'playing' as we adults are allowed to do sometime :o)

Havent had time yet SB. Maybe a miniature one, although I dont fancy mixing the daub with manure !

Hi Diane, sounds a great idea, but like you I wouldn't fancy mixing the daub, that's quite apart from not having the patience to do it, but last october I bought a new gazebo, it hasn't been opened up yet, so looking forward to that when summer arrives, Derek.

Are you going to build one Diane ? It would be nice for you to have a sheltered place to sit in your garden.

Thats the blessed trouble Hywel, I never get time to sit down, every time I stop I see something else needs doing.
Like everyone else.
No actually, I am studying the village down the road
l086 A.D. Have the pages from the Domesday Book for it.
Might make several small model wattle and daub huts to place in front of copies of open field maps on an A3 page. They had a hard time. Winters were very cold. They kept cattle in their huts, to keep them warm.
They were allocated strips of land to let everyone have a fair share of the good and bad ground.
These strips were often right on the other side of the village. They had to work them to get food. There were no fences so there was a lot of trouble with animals not being kept penned in on the tenant's strip.
The website for ' Luttrell Psalter' shows the life they had in great detail. We are so lucky now.

We certainly are ...