Archaeology Notes

Event ID 746457

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT05SW 62.01 02526 54102.

The roofless remains of this pigeon house are situated in an arable field 140m NW of the now-deserted Lawhead House. Circular on plan and constructed of mortared random rubble which incorporates a number of re-used dressed stones, it measures 3.7m in internal diameter and rises to a dormer window at second floor level. At ground-level on the S, there is a re-used late 16th or early 17th century entrance, the jambs and lintel of which bear roll-mouldings and have not been properly aligned in re-use. In the interior, the presence of joist-sockets indicates two floor-levels above the doorway, but apart from a number of stone nesting-boxes just below the present roofline, there are no internal furnishings.

The pigeon house was apparently built sometime after 1859 as it is not indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, sheet 21), of that date.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS/IF) 15 December 1994.