Palisade
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A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive
Reconstruction of a palisade in a Celtic village at St Fagans National History Museum, Wales
Reconstruction of a medieval palisade in Germany
The Kincaid site, a Mississippian culture palisaded settlement in southern Illinois
A section of reconstructed palisade at the Angel Mounds Site, a Mississippian site in Evansville, Indiana
Stockade
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A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall.
Palisade
…closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall. Palisades can form a stockade. Palisade derives from pale, from the Latin word pālus, meaning stake, specifically when used side by side to create a wood defensive wall. In turn…
This historical reconstruction of an 1832 civilian fort from the Black Hawk War, in Illinois, featured a stockade with a blockhouse.
Andersonville Prison, surrounded by three rows of stockades.