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When William the Conqueror, conquered England in 1066, his armies rapidly erected wooden palisades (a fence of stakes or iron railings forming an enclosure or defence) establishing a presence inside the former Saxon kingdoms. Several of these fortresses have been created on sites that had previously been fortified in pre-Roman times, then with the Romans themselves and lastly through the Saxons who established the initial kingdoms there. As times became less turbulent and settled, the Normans became integrated into every single day existence and had been eventually accepted by the neighborhood populace. These wooden palisades slowly commenced to disappear, being replaced with stone. Any new fortifications built from that time onward were definitely made entirely from stone.
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