This small ruined wooden defensive works was used by bandits as a base of operations for hijackings along the route from Jorvikburg to Worm's Ferry. It stands in a clearing amongst a tall stand of pine trees. About half a dozen of these trees have hidden guardposts used by the bandits to watch for danger and possible victims.

Since October 1130, Tariq has endeavored to rebuild the stockade and create a logging concern after finding a grove of rare ironwood trees in the forested hill just above the defensive works. Unfortunately, that same forest is the home of a mysterious cursed Irish druid who has amassed an army of monstrous spiders.

Tariq paid to complete the stockade and start a logging operation. He has paid for axes, furniture, a milling machine, hammers, saws, oxen, wagons as well as a stable to store livestock and equipment. A cabin was built to provide shelter for those who live and work at the stockade.