The word of the day is wattle-and-daub:
n. interwoven twigs plastered with clay or mud, as a building material for huts, cottages, etc.; chiefly attrib. (OED)
"Then, in a district called the Portiuncula, they found a ruined church, Santa Maria degli Angeli, and they built wattle-and-daub cells around it."
- Joan Acocella, "Rich man, poor man: The radical visions of St. Francis", 14 January 2013 The New Yorker
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