It had earthen ramparts and a timber palisade. It originated with a rampart of earth and turf surmounted by a wooden palisade. A double wooden palisade stood inside the moat. These hastily built fortifications were topped with a wooden palisade. It began as a timber fortification enclosed by a palisade. They attacked the Pequot palisade or fort at Mystic. This was topped by a wooden palisade of stakes, up to high, with a walkway. A wooden palisade stretched between these two buildings. It consisted of a square surrounded by a 20-foot-high wooden palisade. The only structural evidence was a wooden palisade built in the ditch. This first construction probably consisted of a wooden palisade and tower. The exterior was lined with a durable wood palisade. The highway directly serves the communities of Fruita, Grand Junction and Palisade. There would have also been a wooden palisade surrounding Mapungubwe Hill. Behind the palisade were the field artillery from the siege of Athens.