Fort Raleigh To Be
Wattled And Daubed
'Change In Setting Rec
ommended By Mrs.
i * Inglis Fletcher
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After 14 years, “The Lost Colony"
j- setting is to have a new version of
l an old look. A $2,600 grant from the .
| North. Carolina Society for the Pres-
I; ervation of Antiquities will enable Al-
Vbert Bell, architect and builder of the
' unique (Lost Colony stage, to make
| more authentic the chapel and houses
js in the play’s second act.
The Roanoke Island Historical As
sociation- directors authorized changes
in the setting upon recommendations
gs Mrs. Inglis Fletcher, historical
novelist of Edenton, and a director of
the Association. Mrs. Fletcher, who
has done extensive research in Eliza
bethan themes, both in England and
the Albemarle region, said the log
cabin construction, used now in de
picting Fort Raleigh’s buildings, was
foreign to Raleigh’s settlers.
Cheap buildings of England of the
16th century were of the “wattle and
•daub” type, said Mrs. Fletcher. Es
sentially, this consisted of framework
of beams, with a side filling of
saplings. Upon the saplings was ap
plied a wall of plaster and file beams
were exposed in criss-cross patterns.
Reeds were used for thatching.
She quoted Haklyut as saying the
colonists found abundance of “fab
■ ric for houses,” meaning the usual ma
terials employed in buildings in En
gland. A pioneer of Elizabethan En
gland, continued Mrs. Fletcher, nat
, uraHy would employ the inexpensive
* and convenient materials and methods
already so familiar to him.
The log cabin, so conspicuous on the
later American frontier,' came from
the Germanic and Scandinavian
tries. “I doubt,” said Mrs. Fletcher,
“that there is today an Englishman
who could build a log cabin.”
This year, walls of the chapel and
•of the two cabins flanking it will be
of plaster with characteristic exposed
beams. The log palisades of the fort
will be left intact. The work will be
done under the supervision of Bell
and Producer Sam Celden. Bell, an
Englishman, is thoroughly familiar
with the wattle and daub technique.
Mrs. Fletcher says she is hopeful that
eventually the other buildings in the
fort area, but not connected with the
play, including the chapel, will be
tom down and rebuilt to simulate what
must have been appearance of the
colony of 1587.
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