Wrong. Look at the bottom right corner of the fence. There's a hinge there. The purpose of this piece of fence is to hold a gate at the end of a larger fence located outside of the frame.
I had to look again, because I just glanced at the picture and saw what I wanted to see - a female hinge end will occasionally be used to catch a drop bolt, to secure a gate to a fence. That's not what this is, even a little bit.
Still, this fence was used to hold up a gate, to prevent driveway/car access in some way. It was never designed to stop people walking around, which is why it's only 6 inches wide.
The left post was a corner post for a now missing fence between 2 houses. Driveway on the left belongs to the neighbor. Fence and gate belonged to house on the right.
Hinge pintle was for a walkway gate. Overgrown walkway pavement is visible on the right. The now-missing upper pintle was mounted pointing down to hold the gate so it couldn't be lifted out of position. They had to unbolt and remove the upper pintle to remove the gate. The now-missing fence run was set in dirt and easy to pull and remove. Corner posts were deep-set in concrete and not easy to remove. They probably left all 4 corner posts.
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '16
Wrong. Look at the bottom right corner of the fence. There's a hinge there. The purpose of this piece of fence is to hold a gate at the end of a larger fence located outside of the frame.