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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 668023
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668023
NJ53SW 34.01 53305 33593
(NJ 5329 3359) Dove Cot (NAT)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 1st ed., (1874)
Comparison with dovecots in Fife suggests that the Gartly dovecot is 16th century.
RCAHMS 1933.
The dovecot of Gartly lies on the high farm lands above Gartly railway station, in a field near Gartly Mains Farm.
It is a round beehive cote, built of rubble blocks, with three string-courses. It has an outer circumference of 67ft, and contains about 500 nests.
A N Robertson 1957
The dovecot, about 8.0m in height, is as described by Robertson (1957).
Visited by OS (EGC) 15 September 1961.
(Newspaper reference and additional bibliography cited).
NMRS, MS/712/54.
