Palissade Sturdy wooden fence usually built to enclose a site until a permanent stone wall could be constructed Often built on a raised earth bank to give further protection Sometimes these were built as an extra defence or as a temporary protection while a more permanent structure was being built
Many of the earthlodge villages of the Plains Village peoples, and later the Arikara and Mandan, were fortified by a deep ditch and a log stockade wall, also known as a palisade