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SECOND PERIOD 168 DUNDONALD CASTLE on the ground floor was at the east corner of the south wall. This, after the additions were made to the castle, became the door of communication between the old and the new buildings, while a new entrance was slapped out in the remarkable recess (Fig. 135) in the centre of the FIG. 135. Dundonald Castle. View from the East. east front. The ground floor was divided into three apartments, traces of the division walls being visible. The two end apartments have circular recesses, the northern one having a corresponding circular projection outside (Figs. 136 and 136A), built in a most markedly battered or sloping manner, the four top courses being perpendicular, and the whole covered in, at the height of about 15 feet, with a straight course of overlapping stones, all built with the most carefully dressed masonry. There was undoubtedly a similar projection corresponding to the recess in the other chamber at the south end of this front, of which only the overlapping stones remain, while the masonry bears marks of having been disturbed, and is now built up flush with the remainder of the wall. The interior of the ground floor shows portions of circular bays corresponding with the circular projections on the outside. The west wall is very irregular in shape on the inside of the ground floor, but on the first floor the inner face of the wall is straightened, thus leaving in some places a scarcement or set-off of unequal breadth 011 the top of the wall of the ground floor,