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Grassfarmer
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:27 pm    Post subject: What is it? (quiz) Reply with quote
I don't want Gcreekrch getting so bored he starts wrestling cougars or bears again so I've got a couple of photos to share from my old farms in Scotland. Can you guess what these two round things are and what their purpose was?
The round thing is on the middle left here - extra points if you can spot the nearest sheep. Very Happy The grass is so green it's hurting my snow accustomed eyes.

And for the second one;


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
a dovecot, used for housing pigeons or doves?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
nearest sheep is right by the fence post along the rock wall to the left of the pic
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
jigs wrote:
nearest sheep is right by the fence post along the rock wall to the left of the pic



Hey McLeod. Get offa Ma ewe!!!

Found the sheep. Is that the foundation remains of an old castle?

the round building in the second picture is for putting H in and telling him to pee in the corner. Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The first pic is the remains of Roman fortifications. Do I get a cookie for being right?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
the rock wall, castle foundation, roman fortifications is the fence...

fairly common in Scotland.. that and hedge rows.. many have been there for hundreds of years..

as for the round roof?? i think the correct answer was given already...

but I'll stick with a porta-lou.. with a modern water closet.. Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
hypocritexposer wrote:
a dovecot, used for housing pigeons or doves?




soiled doves? Confused Shocked
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Grassfarmer
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
OK folks so you all spotted the sheep Very Happy

The round roof isn't a dovecot - what size of doves do you guys have? Shocked Shocked The round building was about 25 foot diameter, 8 foot to the top of the walls with the highest point of the roof being about 20 feet high.

No cookie cowpuncher - you're at least a thousand years out Shocked Wink - besides the Romans usually built in squares or rectangles.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Silo or grain bin?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Grassfarmer wrote:
OK folks so you all spotted the sheep Very Happy

The round roof isn't a dovecot - what size of doves do you guys have? Shocked Shocked The round building was about 25 foot diameter, 8 foot to the top of the walls with the highest point of the roof being about 20 feet high.

No cookie cowpuncher - you're at least a thousand years out Shocked Wink - besides the Romans usually built in squares or rectangles.


some dovecots or doocots are pretty big, from pictures I've seen, and the one I have actually seen in person, in Alberta






I can't find a picture of the Dovecot in Barrhead, AB. (I think that's where I saw it)
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
my Scottish wife is a city girl.. but she had a few guesses...

well house, cistern or maybe an ice house..
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good guesses Steve, not right but I guess you have to be from the country to be familiar with these buildings. Very Happy
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