They decided that "the border of the realm of Prince Árpád" (the head of the Magyars) "should be at the Mezeş Gates", forcing the local population to build a stone-and-timber enclosure at the new border.
Related structures include bank barrows, cursus monuments, mortuary enclosures, timber halls, and other forms of enclosure.
The original structure, of a type known as a hall house, was probably of two or three storeys, comprising a first-floor hall over an unvaulted basement, and may have been surrounded by a defensive timber stockade or enclosure.
Despite the use of a substantial number of oak timbers in the enclosure palisade, percentages of oak remain remarkably stable.
Related structures include bank barrows, cursus monuments, mortuary enclosures and timber halls.
It most likely took the form of a motte-and-bailey castle, with a mound and an outer enclosure defended by a timber palisade and earthen banks.
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The castle comprises a walled, moated enclosure, with an entrance way through a 17th-century timber and plaster gatehouse.
In addition, rows of timber-post holes within the northeastern entrance to the circular enclosure are thought to date to this period; the posts that they contained may have served to mark the movement of the moon toward its northern major limit.
Detecting variations in the strength of the magnetic field revealed the existence of the enclosure ditches and the pits believed to have held the timber obelisks at the newly discovered henge.
The Romans underpinned their structures with timber piling and frequently resorted to the construction of cofferdams (watertight enclosures) that they could dewater by the employment of Archimedean screws and waterwheels.
