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This fork was used for making witchert walls in the Haddenham district, Buckinghamshire. Wichart walls consist of mud and straw.
This fork was used for making witchert walls in the Haddenham district, Buckinghamshire. Many walls in villages in that area of Buckinghamshire (Haddenham, Long Crendon and Chearsley for example) are made of a local type of mud to which straw is added and bound together - this is 'witchert'. This type of building has died out, though many buildings remain.

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MERL miscellaneous note - 'Mr A. A. Eastwood obtained this for us.', Letter from donor to The MERL, 2 November 1953 - '... This is known as witchert and one of the minor insults one can give a local is to call them mud houses!'