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Latitude: 56.0247 / 56°1'28"N
Longitude: -3.4291 / 3°25'44"W
OS Eastings: 311024
OS Northings: 682233
OS Grid: NT110822
Mapcode National: GBR 1Z.SHKS
Mapcode Global: WH6S3.9TBR
Entry Name: Rosyth Castle Dovecot
Scheduled Date: 5 July 1995
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM9151
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: doocote, dovecote, pigeon loft
Location: Dunfermline
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Rosyth
Traditional County: Fife
The monument consists of a dovecot of sixteenth-century date.
It is laid out on a plan of 20 feet square, and has a double-pitched stone-flagged roof above a barrel vault within coped crowsteps. The entrance is on the north side, on the lintel of which is a snake-like carving together with traces of an inscription. The dovecot stands on the mainland to the north of Rosyth Castle, and was presumably originally a part of a complex of those ancillary buildings which did not require the greater security of the tidal promontory on which the castle itself stood.
The area to be scheduled consists of the dovecot, the ground on which it stands and an area extending 6 metres out from the walls of the dovecote, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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