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KELLIE CASTLE 12? FOURTH PERIOD other part of the building. The steps in the staircase being irregular in depth, and the walls of great thickness, I think it probable that this was the original keep, and that the rest of the castle was built around it when it ceased to be a fortress and became a baronial residence. In all probability this tower goes back to 1360, when the place passed into