ENGLISH DOVECOTE 



not coming into use till later days, and even 

 then only in certain districts. But there were 

 local substitutes. In Sussex chalk or rubble is 

 not uncommon, while in Somersetshire use 

 was sometimes madeof clay or "cob, "that ideal 

 fabric for house- walls, which, cool in summer, 

 warm in winter, is just now again enjoying its 

 former high repute. And in the wooded coun- 

 ties of the March and Borderland of Wales, 

 where " black-and-white ' ' half-timbered houses, 

 with the interstices of their wooden framing 

 filled with "wattle and daub," add so much 

 beauty to the countryside, half-timbered dove- 

 cotes of great elegance of form and often richly 

 decorated may be seen. 



It is to this Welsh Border country that the 

 pilgrim who would go in quest of dovecotes 

 shall forthwith be led. 



