Editing Post and lintel (section)

==Lintels==
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In architecture, a post-and-lintel or trabeated system refers to the use of horizontal stone beams or [[lintel]]s which are borne by [[column]]s or posts.  The name is from the [[Latin language|Latin]] ''trabs'', ''[[Beam (structure)|beam]]''; influenced by ''trabeatus'', clothed in the ''trabea'', a ritual garment.

Post-and-lintel construction is one of four ancient structural methods of building, the others being the [[corbel]], [[Arch and Vault|arch-and-vault]], and [[truss]].<ref>L. Sprague De Camp, Ancient Engineers: Technology & Invention from the Earliest Times to the Renaissance (U.S.A.: Barnes and Noble, 1993 edition), 35.</ref>

A noteworthy example of a trabeated system is in [[Volubilis]], from the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] era, where one side of the [[Decumanus Maximus]] is lined with trabeated elements, while the opposite side of the roadway is designed in arched style.<ref>[http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=14906 C. Michael Hogan, ''Volubilis'', Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham (2007)]</ref>