What is recorded here

Tantallon Castle, Dovecot is a buried 17th-century land surface and dovecote in East Lothian, Scotland, still marked at a point accurate to one metre. The dovecote may have fed the castle household, its pigeons returning at dusk to nest in shallow holes cut through stone. Whatever lives beneath the soil now, the dovecote and its buried surface belong to the same century and the same castle.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tantallon Castle, Dovecot as Buried Land Surface (17th Century), Dovecot (17th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Tantallon Castle, Dovecot, was built in the 17th century and is associated with the Douglas family, who were historically significant in Scottish nobility. The structure is remembered as part of the broader Tantallon Castle estate, an important medieval and early modern stronghold in East Lothian.

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