The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887) (14598622397)

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Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century

Year: 1887 (1880s)

Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930

Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles

Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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THIRD PERIOD 166 CASTLE STALCAIRE wall are visible to the south of the keep, and the springing stone of thearch of a doorway which would lead into the courtyard still exists atthe south-west angle. The ground to the south of the tower is the onlyplace on the islet where space for such a courtyard could be found. A

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Fig. 10-1.—Castle Stalcaire, from South-West. tank for water seems to have been constructed in the rock to the westof the keep in connection with a spring which, strange as it may appear,existed there. The only landing place on the little islet is at the south-east angle,where some rude steps formed in the rock ai^e still traceable. KIMLOCHALINE CASTLE — 167 THIRD PERIOD

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