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**: 6 6.6.6 DRYSTONE MASONRY STRUCTURES
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Description
Rectangular-shaped hut with a double
sloped roof. The roof is made of
beams and wooden frames which,
depending on the area of the island,
were covered with stone slabs and
earth to make them waterproof or with
plant material.
Uses
Shelter for people and animals.
Site
Next to the wall of the field in which it
stands.
Ground Plan
Rectangular.
Roofing
Two slopes each with a frame made of
20 trunks, a sandstone cross beam
arch and a main beam made of two
logs. Sandstone slabs covered with
earth rest on the frames. The roof is
reinforced with a sandstone pillar in
the middle of the cross beam arch.
Facings
Facings with two exposed sides and
rubble between them. The walls were
built with little dressed stone laid with
quite open joints. The stones used to
build the doorway and the corners are
the most dressed ones. The facing is
3.50 m high at the top of the crest.
Materials
Roofing made of wild olive tree
beams, sandstone slabs and ashlars,
facings of sandstone, limestone and
adobe.
Flooring
Earth.
Openings
It has a doorway and two little windows.
The doorway is in one of the
long walls and slightly off-centred; it
has an 80 em span depressed arch
and a lintel made of two pieces of
sandstone with a trunk between them.
The 1.62 m high jambs are made of
two columns of stone and the threshold
is made of earth. It had a door.
The little windows, located on each
short wall, are made of sandstone
slabs.
Accessory items
Inside there is a small food storage
place and two tethering stones; outside
and next to the hut there is an irregularly
shaped livestockyard and near
it a charcoal bunker.
Location
Son Ballester (Llucmajor).