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SCALLOWAY CASTLE FOURTH PERIOD The main building is an oblong on plan (Fig. 556), measuring 58 feet 8 inches from north to south, by 33 feet 10 inches from east to west, having a square projecting staircase tower at the north-west corner measuring 25 feet 11 inches by 26 feet 4 inches. This tower is four stories in height, and has the ground floor vaulted, the height of the vault being 11 feet 3 inches. <35 FIG. 556. Scalloway Castle. Plans. The entrance doorway is in the re-entering angle in the south face of the tower, and leads directly to the wide, ample, vaulted staircase, beneath which, on the ground floor, is a large store or guard-room. The sliding bar of the entrance door passes, exposed to view, across one of the windows of this apartment. A well-lighted passage along the west side leads to a large store- room and to the kitchen, the fireplace of which is the full width of the apartment, or 16 feet 9 inches, with a stone seat at one end. At the