Stockade

This article is about the architectural element. For other uses, see Stockade (disambiguation).
This historical reconstruction of an 1832 civilian fort from the Black Hawk War, in Illinois, featured a stockade with a blockhouse.

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.[1]

  1. ^ "Stockade - Cambridge Dictionary".