 The wattle may be made as loose panels, slotted between timber framing to make infill panels, or it may be made in place to form the whole of a fence or wall.The technique goes back to Neolithic times.It forms the substructure of wattle and daub, a composite building material used for making walls, in which "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.