A yurt doesn't have a top plates. They are of this world. Does that count?

I also wonder about the stone post on the second barn, the bore holes seemed very uniform, no lichen and quite clean, could they have been added in the near past?

Jim, you could be right on the moving of the barn. I wonder if it was part of the house across the road, the owners house. As I repeat myself, it was very near the road at one time, placing it closer to the barn. Just thoughts hanging out in the back of my mind. Tim