I don't know what the plan for the fence actually is, but what it looks like to me, is that gap might be filled with a cement footing.
This would be a relatively common method.
It took me about 5 minutes on Google to find this: http://diamond-fence-concrete.com/comm_fencec...0Strip.jpg
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