Tour Scotland Photograph Video Beehive Doocot

Tour Scotland photograph of a Beehive Doocot in Elcho, Perthshire, Scotland. On many Scottish estates a dovecote, or doocot, can be found. It may be disguised as a classical temple, transformed into a cottage ornée or incorporated into a cupola, but many doocots are more humble structures of random rubble with simple dressings that date from medieval times, when pigeons and their eggs were a valuable source of food, while their dung was used for fertiliser and even gunpowder.



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