The Castles of Scotland |
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Alexander altered angle turrets arched attic barmkin bedroom Blair Castle Bothwell building cap-house Castle stands ceiling cellars circular tower conically corbelled corner courtyard Covenanters crenellated crow-stepped gables curtain wall door doorway Douglas Earl Earl's Palace east Edinburgh enceinte entresol fireplace first-floor Hall first-floor level fortalice four storeys garderobe garret Gordon ground floor gun-loops Huntly James James VI kitchen L-plan L-shaped laird lands later Leslie Castle Loch Lord MacGibbon and Ross machicolated main block mansion mural north-east north-west oblong once open rounds panel parapet parapet walk Pitfichie Queen of Scots re-entrant angle restored rises to four rises to three Robert roof round tower ruin Scotland Scottish seat second floor seventeenth century shot-holes side sixteenth century south-east angle south-west square tower stair rises stair turret Stewart stone storeys high structure survives three storeys tower house turnpike stair upper floors vaulted basement watch-room William William Burn wing