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SCALLOWAY CASTLE FOURTH PERIOD passage, at its landing, and corbelled out in the re-entering angle a new wheel stair leads to the upper floor. The reason of the stopping of this stair is, that its turret, had it continued higher, would have interfered with the corner turret of the tower, as seen on Fig. 557. The second floor and upper floor each contain three rooms, with separate accesses provided by the turret staircases, and have garde-robes in the thickness of the walls. On all the projecting angles there are round turrets supported by the double tier of corbels with imitation shot- FIG. 558. Scalloway Castle. View from the South -West. holes between, so characteristic of this date in the Northern Islands, as seen at the Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, and Muness. The similarity of detail to the former is further apparent in the mullions and transoms which originally adorned the windows of the turrets, although the latter are now entirely ruinous. Scalloway was built by Earl Patrick Stewart in 1600, and in it the courts of law were occasionally held. During the Commonwealth it was garrisoned by Cromwell's soldiers, and since then it has evidently been left to fall into decay.