NEWARK CASTLE 24? THIRD PERIOD apartments. These do not enter one off the other as usual, the one farthest from the stair being reached by a mural passage, as shown on the plan of the second floor. Cardoness belonged to the MacCullochs, a family of old standing in Galloway, and it is generally supposed that the castle is of about the same date as Threave, but its details show it to be of a later period, pro- bably the end of the fifteenth century. NEWARK CASTLE, SELKIRKSHIRE. This interesting old keep, so full of historical and romantic associa- tions, is situated on the top of a steep wooded bank rising above the i - T: Pio. 203. Newark Castle. View from the North.West, river Yarrow, about 4-^ miles up from the town of Selkirk. Mr. Fraser, in his work on the Scotts of Buccleuch, states that in a charter of
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