Tour Scotland Video Northfield House Doocot Prestonpans East Lothian

Tour Scotland video of Northfield House Doocot on ancestry visit to Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland. 16th century Scottish beehive shaped doocot also known as a dovecot with a flattish domed covered roof. It contains approximately 600 stone nests and is still in use. A dovecote or dovecot is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be free standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in Western Europe and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung. In Scotland the tradition is continued in modern urban areas.

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