Kissing gate

[justcarol67]

Goddlefrood wrote:
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> For anyone who has not seen the picturtes supplied in this thread, 
or might be unable to see them, a kissing gate is typically a wooden
structure with two upright structures meeting in a v shape. From the
middle of the v shape there is then a further upright structure with a
gate affixed to it on hinges. To enter one pushes the gate away, steps
into the gap, and then swings the gate so that one can exit from the
other side. At no time have any such kissing gates felt to me like I
was in any kind of enclosure, but then that may just be me.

Carol responds:

What I don't understand, and I realize that this is not an important
question with regard to the story, is how the v-shape (or circular
shape in the photo I linked to) could keep out animals (presumably
large hoofed ones, not squirrels or rabbits) any better than a regular
gate, which still requires a human hand to slide the latch.

Carol, thinking that a stile, or even what we in the U.S. call a
cattle guard, would work just as well or better to keep sheep and
cattle out of a graveyard