BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



were seemingly designed to support the hori- 

 zontal beams to which was secured the upper 

 end of the potence, which, the centre of the 

 roof being open, could not be supported at that 

 point. 



Another curious featureof thisveryinterest- 

 ing dovecote is the relatively small number 

 of the nests — one hundred and thirty only — 

 wholly disproportioned to a buildingof its size. 

 Was there some regulationinthedistrict, limit- 

 ing the number of birds kept? But if such re- 

 gulation dated from the period of the dovecote's 

 first erection, why then was it built upon so 

 large a scale? 



This dovecote at Trevanion is, although 

 much overgrown with ivy, still in excellent re- 

 pair, and an object of keen interest to its owner. 

 The same is happily the case at the vicarage, 

 Trevena, where a very similar dovecote is still 

 usedfor its original purpose. It is a little larger 

 than the one just noticed, has more nest-holes, 

 and is particularly worth seeing as still showing 

 the original arrangement of the opening in the 

 roof; the aperture being covered by a slab sup- 

 ported on three stone pillars. 

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