DRY STONE HUT AT MARIOT
IN DAGLAN, DORDOGNE

Text by Christian Lassure,
photo by François Poujardieu

The edifice stands in an enclosure containing a 12.5 m-long-by-10.5-m-wide threshing area (in local parlance lou chol, i. e. "the floor"), that makes use of a large outcropping rock stratum.

What we have here is what may be termed the "cabane de l'aire", a hut combining a temporary storehouse and stable with a threshing floor. 

The entrance is a wide, low opening, hardly 1.30 m high, with its angles made of large slabs alternating as stretchers and headers, underneath a wooden lintel. The hut faces north, being used as a shelter to keep the owner's mule safe from summer flies.

The external diameter is 4.80 m, the internal height 5.25 m and the wall thickness 1 m. A wooden floor supported by joists was used for storing sheaves.

In the outside wall to the left and right of the door opening, two rings are fixed, that were used to attach a packing mule. A third ring played a similar role inside. One ring or the other was used, depending on the weather.

Sources :
- Documents supplied by François Poujardieu;
- François Poujardieu, Les cabanes en pierre sèche du Périgord, Editions du Roc de Bourzac, Bayac, 2002, 107 p.;
- René Dechère, Les huttes du Périgord - de la Préhistoire à nos jours, l'auteur, Saint-Cyprien, 1981, 88 p.

To be referenced as :

Christian Lassure (text), François Poujardieu (photo)
Dry stone hut at Mariot in Daglan, Dordogne
http://pierreseche.chez-alice.fr/cabane_de_mariot_a_daglan_angl.htm
August 5th, 2005

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