Ancient & Modern

Tealing dovecot, 1595; my bike Nicole, 2009.

Historic Scotland plaque says:
TEALING HOUSE DOVECOT
This dovecot was built in 1595. It bears on a gable stone the arms and initials of Sir David Maxwell of Tealing, and on the door lintel his monogram with that of Helen his wife.
This is a fine example of the many large dovecots which still survive in Scotland. In the middle ages the building of dovecots was encouraged by act of parliament but by the seventeenth century pigeons had become so numerous and destructive that they had to be restricted.

Last Pyrenees snowshoeing photo here.