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SECOND PERIOD 178 TORTHORWALD CASTLE on the field, along with Sir Humphrey de Bois, an ancestor of Hector Boece the historian, and in 1346 Thomas Carlyle of Torthorwald was MARSH BV SOUTH END or KEEP FIG. 143. Torthorwald Castle. Plan of Site. killed at Nevill's Cross. Either of these ill-fated men may have been the builder of the castle. CLACKMANNAN TOWER, CLACKMANNANSHIRE. This castle is interesting and instructive from its showing, by the various alterations it has undergone, the steps by which improvements were gradually introduced into similar keeps. It is situated on the top of a hill, on the eastern slope of which the town of Clackmannan stands.