Palisade

After the wooden homes and meetinghouse were built, the Pilgrims built a palisade. A plaisade is a strong fence that was built around the village. This fence was built of split logs and did not use nails. Nails were very expensive so the Pilgrims had to drill holes in the logs to hold and join parts of the fence together. Pilgrims also built platforms in strategic places along the fence line to allow themselves to see over the fence and to keep themselves out of harm's way while defending their village.