Thank you for your reply, but my experience is that there is a lot of information regarding agriculture and gardening all the way back to the ancients. I have translated Pliny writing about agricultural practices. Crescenzi wrote a 12 volume set on 13th century farming even describing Moorish hotbeds of buried dung covered by soil but no hugelkultur. Magnus is the 13th century gave detailed instructions on how to plant turf. You can find medieval instructions for grafting and pruning. There are detailed medieval instructions on how to make wattle raised beds including dimensions. There are paintings of gardens, and farms, and haystacks and peasants and all manner of agricultural construction but no hugelkultur. Burying trash is not the same thing. Every text I have ever seen shows the brush that was cleaned off the timber as being used for fencing, which makes sense since livestock would easily damage a garden. All the paintings of gardens show simple rectangular beds with wattle fencing. But I can't find any mention or even a drawing that might suggest the burying brush and timber to create garden beds. I can't find any mention of it in secondary sources either. The only sources that mention the technique are modern hugelkultur proponents.
