A technique for strengthening a stone or earthen rampart by means of a timber framework. Timber lacing was used in the second city at Troy, and for various Minoan and Mycenaean buildings. In Europe, it was used for defense works from the 10th century BC and also at many of the Iron Age hillfort sites in the Hallstatt and La Tène periods. Timber was occasionally used as a lacing for brickwork, particularly in large-scale work such as the defenses or the granary at Mohenjo-daro.