Archaeology Notes

Event ID 733865

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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(NO 6159 0783) Dovecot (NAT)

OS 25" map (1914)

Dovecot, Priory, Crail. A circular dovecot, probably of 16th century date, situated in a field on the S side of a lane leading from Nethergate East to the priory site (60 NW 21).

The internal diameter is 11 1/4ft and the walls are 3ft thick over the stone nests. The rough rubble walls, converging as they ascend, are harled to the wallhead where they terminate in a slightly crenellated parapet, within which rises a circular drum containing the entrance for the birds. The door is on the S.

RCAHMS 1933

As described by RCAHMS.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 27 August 1968.

Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Kincardine to Fife Ness 1996