Fences

thumb|A wooden fence thumb|During the Cold War, West German trains ran through [[East Germany. This 1977 view shows how East German authorities placed fences near the tracks to keep potential defectors at bay]]

type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s)

thumb|right|240 px|A typical clipped European beech hedge in the [[Eifel, Germany]] thumb|right|240px|A round hedge of creeping groundsel

thumb|right|Reconstruction of a palisade in a Celtic village at St Fagans National History Museum, [[Wales]] thumb|right|Reconstruction of a medieval palisade in Germany

mortarless masonry method

shock barrier to contain animals or people

thumb|260px|An illustration of a kraal near Bulawayo in the 19th century. thumb|260px|Building an African Kraal (July 1853, X, p.78) thumb|260px|Zulu people|Zulu kraal near [[Umlazi, Natal]] Kraal (also spelled craal or kraul) is an Afrikaans and Dutch word, also used in South African English, for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock, located within a Southern African settlement or village surrounded by a fence of thorn-bush branches, a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, roughly circular in form. It is similar to a boma in eastern or central Africa.

Large pest-exclusion fence in Australia

thumb|Comparison of a ha-ha (top) and a regular wall (bottom). Both walls prevent access, but one does not block the view looking outward.

wall or barrier at national boundaries

separates territories of Bangladesh and India & also known as Line Of Friendship

former 1000 km long barrier separating Manchuria from both Mongolia and Liaoning

lightweight construction material made by weaving thin branches or slats between upright stakes to form a woven lattice

pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits and other agricultural pests, from the east, out of Western Australian pastoral areas

tourist attraction in New Zealand

type of fence that forces drifting snow to accumulate in a desired place

decorative fence often designating domestic property lines

international border

type of wall separating peoples, administrative units or cultures

type of fence

thumb|Track and field hurdles thumb|A traditional wattle hurdle thumb|A horse free-jumping a steeplechase-type hurdle right|175px|thumb|A mobile cattle pen made using steel hurdles; attached to a cattle crush in foreground thumb|Hurdles being used to cross the Mississippi River. thumb|Ancient site of the "ford of hurdles", Dublin A hurdle (UK English, limited US English) is a moveable section of light fence. In the United States, terms such as "panel", "pipe panel" or simply "fence section" are used to describe moveable sections of fencing intended for agricultural use and crowd control; "hurd

The Great Hedge of India

fortified base

thumb|upright=1.35|Hedge laid in Midland style thumb|upright=1.35|A hedge about three years after being re-laid

thumb|A shrine surrounded by a tamagaki A is a fence surrounding a Japanese Shinto shrine, a sacred area or an imperial palace. Believed to have been initially just a brushwood barrier of trees, tamagaki have since been made of a variety of materials including wood, stone and—in recent years—concrete. Depending on the material and technique utilized, such fences have a variety of names: made of roughly finished thick boards, made of unpeeled or unstripped boards or logs, , and , , made of vertically set thin strips of bamboo or wood, The simple fences of ancient and medieval times became

border barrier being constructed by Pakistan at the Durand Line

thumb| thumb|Soldiers (centre) standing behind a zariba which protects a village in [[Democratic Republic of the Congo during the time of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition in 1890]]

Temporary closure of a place

thumb|Illustration of Fladry use Fladry is a rope mounted along the top of a fence, from which are suspended strips of fabric or colored flags, that will flap in a breeze. They are intended to deter wolves from crossing the line. Fladry lines have been used for this purpose for several centuries, traditionally for hunting wolves in Eastern Europe. They may be used to protect livestock in small pastures from wolves and coyotes. They are effective temporarily, as the novelty may soon wear off once the line has been crossed, and particularly if the strips are coiled by the wind. The fladry lines

used to keep animals in or out of an area

cluster of buildings in an enclosure