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a.c. wrote:
JennyC wrote:
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"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote
There *IS* a name for it, and IIRC it was used extensively by Iron Age
people.

thinks
What are those wire cages full of stones/rocks called?

Gabions?

Thasser one. But no, that's not what the wall is called. It's not a
palisade, either.

This is driving me mad !!

I've been googling this morning and found wattle fences which are somewhat
similar inasmuch as they use the same materials - just in a single fence as
opposed to a double one:
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tpg/Woodworking1.htm

Actually, in the case of what I'm thinking about, not really at all
similar. The cuttings / prunings/ brushwood (another word to use in my
search) are not in any way intertwined with the posts. As in wattle.
Indeed, anything stiking out from the post line was trimmed off.
Imagin a row of posts with brushwood, prunnings piled against it...
they'd roll off. So place a second post row to trap the material within
and allowing for a denser wall to be created.

But thank you very much for the sites. I got the word "brushwood" as a
keyword search thingy.

The following site has some diagrams of barriers used in sand dunes -principle
is similar:
http://handbooks.btcv.org.uk/handboo...t/section/3941


A very interesting site. It does seem to support gabions as the name
for the stone baskets. Even shows how they're done


Found a Romanian fence:
http://www.globalgayz.com/RomaniaGalleryC/IMG_1416.html

And totally irrelevant but interesting - from the Salic Law
(http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/salic.htm) :
Title XXXIV. Concerning the Stealing of Fences.
1. If any man shall have cut 3 staves by which a fence is bound or held
together, or have stolen or cut the heads of 3 stakes, he shall be sentenced to
600 denars, which make 15 shillings,

Jenny :~)


not a crannóg either

from http://handbooks.btcv.org.uk/handboo...t/section/3314
Dead hedge; under the coppice heading.