Hoarding

Rarity: Uncommon

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What Wikipedia says

A hoard or hoarding was a temporary wooden shed-like construction on the exterior of a castle during a siege that enabled the defenders to improve their field of fire along the length of a wall and, most particularly, directly downwards towards the bottom of the wall.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Hoarding (castle)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Jesús Gómez Fernández, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.