Around the remains of this mound, researchers have discovered burial mounds, a large plaza, a wooden defensive palisade and several other Mississippian structures.

They also had a village protected by a defensive palisade.

If the village was large enough it could contain a wooden longhouse and even defensive palisades.

The circle of huts was enclosed both inside and out by a strong defensive palisade.

The cross-peninsula defensive palisade completed in 1634 was an integral part of the creation of Middle Plantation, though its exact route is long gone.

A defensive palisade with bastions surrounded the 40-hectare (99-acre) town.

The circular village, surrounded by defensive palisades, was occupied for about 20 years, with a total population of about 250.

The outer wall of the building itself served as the defensive palisade.

The site was surrounded by a low embankment with regular rises thought to have once been a wooden defensive palisade with bastions.

And, straight ahead, the invaders' defensive palisade, wherein the torches still burned.