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:* * *: 6 6.4.4 DRYSTONE MASONRY STRUCTURES
Description
Excavated and walled underground
gallery, normally quite narrow and low,
built in a cultivated field to collect infiltration
water and to drain off the
excess.
Uses
Channelling and removal of the water
to a torrent.
Site
The albella was dug in a cultivated terraced
field, crossing it obliquely and
its outlet is in the facing of the terrace
wall surmounted by a stone lintel. The
slope where it lies is completely terraced
and used as olive grove.
Materials
Limestone.
Profile
Sloping with a steeper gradient in its
last few metres than in the rest of the
channel.
Bed
Stone paved.
Channel walls
The walls of the channel consist of 20
cm high stone slabs laid on end.
Roofing
The channel is also covered by stone
slabs laid as lintels.
Location
Torrent Des Raca , Deia.
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