Habitations consisted of round thatched stone huts. Peebles was mainly inhabited by weavers and labourers living in thatched cottages. Roofs were thatched with grass or straw. The latte-stone was used as a foundation on which thatched huts were built. The walls were stone with possibly thatched roofs. Mississippian houses were generally square-shaped with plastered walls and thatched roofs. In rural areas, many houses with thatched roofs are covered with the gourd vines. Roofs were either thatched or covered in cypress bark. The homes are usually rectangular and raised on stilts with thatched roofs. Their houses were made primarily of stone and wood with thatched roofs. The construction camps consisted of open-sided barracks built of bamboo poles with thatched roofs. The houses of commoners had thatched roofs (nipa palm leaves). In the Mumun period buildings were pit dwellings with walls of wattle-and-daub and thatched roofs. Sylt also features many Frisian-style houses with thatched roofs. All of these buildings had thatched roofs.