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* * *: 6 6.6.4 DRYSTONE MASONRY STRUCTURES
Description
Rectangular hut open on one of its
short sides and roofed with two slopes.
Uses
Shelter for the cart and animals.
Site
Example 1 is near a road on one side
of a field of herbaceous crops and
almond trees; example 2 is in the
middle of a herbaceous crops field.
Ground Plan
Rectangular.
Roofing
Example 1 has a two-sloped roof
made of stone with a main beam and
wooden frames on which stone slabs
have been laid and covered with
earth. The frame of each slope is
made of 6 trunks.
The roof of example 2 was built using
a method which does not follow the
drystone masonry technique used in
the rest of the hut: it is made of rectangular
pieces of sandstone resting
on the tops of the long walls which
were covered with earth.
Facings
Both huts have double facings open
on both sides with rubble between
them. The walls were built with little
dressed stone laid with quite open
joints.
The facings in example 1 are connected
while those in hut 2 only have a
form of levelling off.
Materials
Roofing made of logs and other pieces
of wood and sandstone slabs,
facings made of sandstone and sandstone
ashlars (example 1); roofing
made of sandstone and facings of
sandstone and adobe (example 2).
Flooring
Earth.
Openings
One of the short sides was not walled
in order to get the cart in.
Accessory items
Inside example 1 there are two mangers
built into the two corners of the
short wall and a tying up place. There
is a small food store in one of the long
walls in example 2 and a low wall
standing against the short wall which
supported a manger along with a
wooden tying up point in each corner;
outside there is a claper (cleared stones
heap) next to the short wall.
Location
Cami de Cap Blanc, Llucmajor (example
1); Son Pieres, Llucmajor (example
2).