BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



About five hundred L-shaped nest-holes still 

 remain; so, too, does the main beam ofthe pot- 

 ence, with some portions of its ladder-bearing 

 arms. 



A very interestingdovecote enjoys adelight- 

 ful situation in a corner of the rose-garden at 

 Fyfield Manor, near Pewsey, a house which, 

 dating in the main from Tudor times, has de- 

 tails of still greater age. The dovecote, twenty- 

 five feet square, is built of alternate courses of 

 brick and stone; has a tiled roof, with cupola 

 and weather-vane; a single window; and three 

 hundred and sixty-five L-shaped nest-holes, 

 provided with very narrow alighting-ledges. 

 The walls are four feet thick, the doorway four 

 feet six by two feet three. The upright of the 

 potence still survives. 



The number of nest-holes — one for each 

 day of the year — can hardly have beena matter 

 of chance. The same number occurs in some 

 other examples. 



