Tour Scotland Photographs Video Elcho Doocot Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the Doocot near Elcho Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. This picturesque 16th century Doocot is very close to Elcho Castle. This type of structure was intended to house pigeons or doves in days gone by in Scotland. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically, and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung. This doocot contains more than 400 pigeon holes.

Tour Scotland photograph of the Doocot near Elcho Castle in Perthshire, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of the Doocot near Elcho Castle in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Elcho Doocot

Tour Scotland video of the Doocot near Elcho Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. This picturesque 16th century Doocot is very close to Elcho Castle. This type of structure was intended to house pigeons or doves in days gone by in Scotland. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically, and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Kinnaird Doocot

Tour Scotland photograph of Kinnaird Doocot, Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. A Doocot is a Scottish building intended to house pigeons or doves. They may be square or circular free standing structures 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 Scotland and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Old Doocot Boarhills

Tour Scotland photograph of an old doocot in Boarhills, Fife, Scotland. A Scottish doocot is a building intended to house pigeons or doves, which were an important food source in history. In Scotland the usual term is doocot, and the tradition is continued in modern urban areas. Dovecotes, or doocots, may be square or circular, or even built into the end of a house or barn and generally contain pigeonholes where the birds nest. The birds were kept both for their eggs, flesh, and dung.



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Photograph Aberdour Doocot Scotland

Photograph of Aberdour Doocot, Fife, Scotland. A 16th century "beehive" shape doocot, or pigeon house, is located to the south of Aberdour Castle, containing around six hundred nesting boxes. The thirty feet high structure rises in four steps, divided by "rat courses"; projecting ribs which prevented rats from climbing inside.

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Tour Scotland Photograph of Pagoda Doocot

Tour Scotland photograph of Pagoda Doocot at Megginch Castle in Southern Perthshire, Scotland. A Doocot is a building intended to house pigeons or doves, which were an important food source in Scottish history. Megginch Castle was used as a location in the 1994 film Rob Roy. To the north west of the house is an unusual octagonal doocot in its courtyard, which features open Gothic arches below and a bellcast roof which is almost oriental in style.



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