Stockade - Solid fence of heavy timbers.
Stringcourse - Continuous horizontal moulding on wallface.
Tau cross - Plain T cross with equal limbs.
Stockade: (1) To fortify with a breastwork. (2) A defensive enclosure made of upright stakes.
The old motte-and-bailey castles were generally wooden stockades. As power was consolidated, the richer Norman lords built round stone walls on top of their mottes which were thus rendered fireproof.
The other bank of the stream was open ground -- a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.
Stockade Historic District, c. , (Historic), Schenectady City, Schenectady County NY
Sunbury Historic District, c. 1772, (Historic), Sunbury_City, Northumberland County PA
Titusville Historic District, c.
 See also: Door, Brick, Tower, Castle, Batter
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