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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 685142
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/685142
NO22NW 27.00 24229 28834
NO22NW 27.01 NO 2422 2883 Grave-Slab
(NO 2422 2883) Dovecot (NR)
OS 6" map (1970)
Dovecot, Kinnaird Castle: Rectangular lean-to single compartment type, rubble-built, originally harled. Stone boxes. Perhaps originally 17th century; present skews and back wall cope 18th century. Inner lintel of door re-used sculptured stone - ? tomb slab - incised concentric circles interlaced with straight lines; shears.
SDD List 1966
This dovecot, which is still operational, has recently been re-roofed.
Information from sale brochure (for Kinnaird Castle) produced by Messrs Knight Frank and Rutley, September 1989.
