Fascine
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A fascine is a rough bundle of brushwood or other material used for strengthening an earthen structure, or making a path across uneven or wet terrain. Typical uses are protecting the banks of streams
Templin Channel in Templin, Germany. The riverbank was strengthened with fascines.
Two chandeliers stacked with fascines.
British Mark V tanks carrying crib fascines, 1918.
Single fascine launch near Hannover – Centurion AVRE
Gabion
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A gabion is a cage, cylinder, or cube, typically mesh, filled with solid material suitable to use in various civil engineering and military applications. Ballasts include rocks, sand, soil, used tires
Fascine
…trenches, Blein used boats, trestles and ladders covered with boards to cross enemy entrenchments – when his account mentions fascines it is along with gabions as a defensive element. Tanks in World War I, namely the British Mark IV, started the practice of carrying fascines on the roof, to be deployed to fill…
An inclined stacked wall of gabions supporting a multilane roadway near Sveti Rok, Croatia
Gabions as X-ray protection during customs inspection
Mattress gabions protecting a bank
Gabions stepped with the slope as a bridge abutment