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* *: 6 6.6.5 DRYSTONE MASONRY STRUCTURES
Description
Rectangular structure with a single
slope roof with Arab tiles.
Uses
Shelter for people and animals, storage
of harvest (olives, carobs, etc.).
Site
On a cultivated terrace that is part of
some cleared land used for olive and
carob trees.
Ground plan
Rectangular.
Roofing
One slope with a frame made of 11
beams which support cross beams
with Arab tiles on top.
Facings
Facings with two exposed sides with
rubble between them. The walls were
built with barely dressed stone laid
with quite open joints. The jambs and
the corners have the most dressed
stone; the cornerstones decrease in
size from the foundations up to the top
of the facing. The maximum and minimum
heights of the facings are 2.85
and 1.86 m.
Materials
Wooden frame and Arab tile roof,
limestone facings.
Flooring
It may have been cobbled.
Openings
It has a doorway and a shutter. The
doorway, spanning 1.15 m, is a
depressed arch with a lintel made of 5
trunks, a threshold made of 4 more or
less prism-shaped stones and 1.68 m
high jambs are made of two columns
of stone with rubble between them
like the rest of the bond. This doorway,
which had a door, is in one of the
long walls and off-centred. The shutter
is in one of the shorter walls.
Accessory items
Inside there are three posts, a cistern,
a small larder and two low walls standing
next to the main walls; outside
there is a small stone bench against
the main wall near the doorway and a
low wall which acts as reinforcement
for the long rear wall.
The cistern collects water from the
roof. The system consists of a series
of channel tiles on top of the wall with
the doorway (running from one corner
to the doorway) and fixed in place
with mortar. These channels collect
the rainwater from most of the roof
and direct it to a vertical pipe inside
the wall that leads down to the cistern
2.30 m below ground.
Location
Ses Rates (Soller).