The Dove-Cote is intended to be a collaborative space where members of the SCA’s College of Arms can contribute to shared information resources.
Its name is an allusion to an architectural feature found in many places from classical antiquity through the early modern period: a building like a round house or small tower, with open windows and an interior full of nooks that provided nesting spaces for a large number of domesticated doves, or pigeons, which served as a food source for thousands of years. By extension, a set of open-fronted compartments used to sort messages and documents are also called pigeonholes, and it is this sense I had in mind when naming the site, which I hope to eventually support a variety of different collections of information relevant to Society heralds.
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