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View from SE showing dovecot

SC 791913

Description View from SE showing dovecot

Date 1979

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 791913

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dovecot, Under Bolton Farm, East Lothian, from south-east This view from the south-east, taken in 1979, shows the dovecot, abutting part of a farm steading. The projecting string-course was designed to stop rats climbing the wall to get at the pigeon nests inside. Dovecots are especially large and common in former grain-growing areas up the east coast of Scotland, like East Lothian, Fife and Moray. Inside, were rows of stone nesting boxes, and a rotating ladder, known as a 'glover', provided access to the boxes at the upper levels. The dovecot was, in medieval and early modern Scotland, a prerogative of the landowning classes, designed to provide them with fresh meat. It was also a tax on their tenants, as the pigeons ate grain from the tenants' fields. This is a good example of a circular 18th-century dovecot. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH78

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/791913

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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