Dovecotes were used as a source of food – meat and eggs –
as well as dung. A number of examples
remain in Essex. This one at High House, Purfleet, dating from the late
seventeenth century retains its nest boxes as well as the revolving ladder
called a portence.
It was photographed when the Essex Society for
Archaeology and History visited High House in September 2014.
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