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EDZELL CASTLE - 363 THIRD PERIOD century. The buildings 011 the west side of the quadrangle are still fairly preserved ; those on the north side are very much ruined, while on the east and south sides they have, with the exception of the outer wall, been entirely removed (Fig. 312). The west range contains, on the ground floor, a kitchen, an arched passage forming the principal entrance into the courtyard, and various cellars and stores. On the north side we find traces of a most extensive kitchen, the fireplace having apparently been 23 feet wide by 10 feet deep. From this fireplace there is an access to a large oven, and in the kitchen a drain to the outside. The other buildings no doubt contained the bakehouse, the brewery, etc., while the stables and other offices were probably on the other sides of the courtyard. On the first floor the buildings in the quadrangle contained the great hall, 50 feet by 24 feet, at the north-west angle, and adjoining it, in the west range, were apart- ments which seem to have been the withdrawing-room and a private room, or bedroom, with an anteroom connecting this suite with the old keep by a door opened for that purpose in the staircase of the keep. The round tower at the north-west angle would no doubt be a private room off the hall. It has a private stair down to the wine-cellar, and up to bedrooms above. The principal entrance to these apartments was by a turret staircase in the north-west angle of the courtyard. Some portions of the entrance doorway are still visible in this turret, with the thin pilaster mouldings in use about the end of the sixteenth century. To the east of the hall there were other large apartments, probably bedrooms, but they are now completely obliterated, except the outer wall with its windows. There are also some traces of a tower at the north-east angle. To the south of the quadrangle is situated the pleasure garden. Such gardens were not unusual in connection with the Scottish castles of the time of Queen Mary and James vi., but there is no other so well pre- served, or where the architecture has been so fine. This garden is 173 feet long by 144 feet wide, and is enclosed on three sides with an elaborately decorated wall. Each side is divided into compartments 10 to 11 feet wide (Fig. 315), separated by what appear to have been square shafts. The bases, caps, and central bands still remain built into the walls, but the shafts are gone. In the central band we have an example of the re-introduction in late work of the enrichments of an earlier time, the dog-tooth of the thirteenth century being the enrichment used here about 1600. The compartments are arranged in two alternating designs, one con- taining a single recess for flowers, 3 feet wide and 2 feet 6 inches high, with a carved bas-relief above, and the other containing three rows of small recesses (about 16' inches square) arranged chequerwise, with