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Fascine
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A fascine (pronounced [fəˈsiːn], "fa-SEEN") is a rough bundle of brushwood used for strengthening an earthen structure, or making a path across uneven or wet terrain. Such bundles were used in military defences for revetting (shoring up) trenches or ramparts, especially around artillery batteries, or filling in ditches. Military fascine bridges were used as early as Roman times. Modern day Fascines resemble a bundle of pipes, an outer layer with chains running through them and loose pipes inserted in the middle.First used on the Centurion AVRE but now widely used and launched by the CHAVRE
First World War tanks started the practice of carrying fascines on the roof, to be deployed to provide traction and support over rough ground and to fill trenches that would otherwise be an obstacle to the tank. Some modern tanks are still equipped to carry and deploy fascines, although these now consist of large bundles of heavy plastic pipes referred to as pipe fascines.
Fascines can be found outside a military context, protecting the banks of streams from erosion, covering marshy ground and so on.
- A paper on the use of fascines for draining inclines
- An article on use of fascines in causeway construction
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