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Sanday, Warsetter Dovecot

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Dovecot (17th Century) - (19th Century)

Site Name Sanday, Warsetter Dovecot

Classification Dovecot (17th Century) - (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Sanday, Cross, Warsetter Farm, Doocot

Canmore ID 3442

Site Number HY63NW 35

NGR HY 63030 37717

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3442

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
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View of dovecot (or doocot) entrance for pigeons, with date stone Digital image of D 3416
View of dovecot (or doocot) entrance for pigeons, with date stone Digital image of D 3416General oblique aerial view of Sanday, looking NE.View of telecommunications mast and dovecot from WSanday, Warsetter Dovecot, HY63NW 35, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoGeneral view.View of dovecot from SW. Digital image of D 23628 CNAerial view of Orkney, Sanday, Post Office Radio Station and telephone exchange, Warsetter farmsteading and Warsetter dovecot, taken from the SE.Oblique aerial view of Sanday, The Wart, Post Office Radio Station and telephone exchange, taken from the SW.Sanday, Warsetter Dovecot, HY63NW 35, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView of dovecot from WView of dovecot (or doocot) from NE, with water storage tanks in front. Digital image of D 3413Oblique aerial view of Sanday, Warsetter Farmhouse and Dovecot with the PO Radio Station from the SW.View of dovecot (or doocot) from SEView of dovecot from W. Digital image of D 23630 CNSanday, Warsetter Dovecot, HY63NW 35, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView of dovecot (or doocot) from NE, with water storage tanks in frontOblique aerial view centred on Warsetter, looking W.Aerial view of Orkney, Sanday, Post Office Radio Station and telephone exchange, Warsetter farmsteading and Warsetter dovecot, taken from the W.Sanday, Warsetter Dovecot, HY63NW 35, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView of telecommunications mast and dovecot from WOblique aerial view of Sanday, The Wart, Post Office Radio Station and telephone exchange, taken from the S.View of telecommunications mast and dovecot from WView of dovecot from SW

Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Cross And Burness
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Archaeology Notes

HY63NW 35 63029 37716

For Warsetter Farmhouse (HY 6288 3775) and associated buildings, see HY63NW 44.00.

A 19th century dovecot, still intact. An armorial stone of the Sinclairs, dated 1613 is inside. The dovecot is built on the remains of a mound of uncertain purpose, which Mr Mackay, headmaster of Sanday school believes to have been a Norse beacon stance, but it is in a good position for a cairn.

Visited by OS, 8 July 1970.

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Field Visit (September 1979)

Stone-built dovecote with stone-slab roof, one side gabled, the other hipped. Mound under it as described.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 79

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Note (1980)

RCAHMS: The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of Sanday and North Ronaldsay

Warsetter, Sanday HY 6301 3771 HY63NW(M)

Nineteenth-century dovecote in good condition.

RCAHMS 1980

(OR 353)

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