Archaeology Notes

Event ID 718889

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT57NW 15 53265 77374.

(NT 53265 77374) Dovecot (NR)

OS 6" map (1968)

Dovecot, Athelstaneford: This lectern-type dovecot measures 15 ft 6 ins by 15 ft 9 ins, with a slate roof and crowstepped gables. The random rubble walls are 3 ft 6 ins thick, partly harled, with dressings and two string courses. The door, in the W wall, has a wooden lock; above it is inscribed 'C H 1583'. There are fourteen entry holes midway up the roof, and remains of three in an opening in the S wall below the eaves. There were once perhaps 600 nests but only 52 remain.

D C Bailey and M C Tindall 1963; J Whitaker 1938; RCAHMS 1924, visited 1912

As described. The roof has partly collapsed.

Visited by OS (BS) 14 July 1975.