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Opus craticum is an ancient Roman construction technique, involving wattlework and walls of half-timber construction, filled with stones and/or straw and plastered with mortar. An example of this technique would be the House in Opus Craticum in Herculaneum. Before the Romans, the Minoans, Etruscans, and Greeks are known to have used similar building techniques. At least since the thirteenth century this type of construction was common in Europe and called half-timbered in English, colombage in French and fachwerk in German.
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