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FOURTH PERIOD 138 HODDAM CASTLE The castle stands on the top of the steep bank (Fig. 595) which bounds the level holms of the river Annan on the south, about 3| miles from Ecclefechan, and about six miles from Lockerbie. It has been built on the L plan, the wing being carried up as a staircase tower ^--^- ,-X _ _^_ FIG. 595. Hoddam Castle. View from the North-East. (Fig. 596), and finished with a parapet and angle turrets like the tower at Pinkie House. The courtyard was until recently enclosed with a wall, strengthened with towers, but the building in the course of the present century has been greatly altered and added to, so that its original features are to a great extent obliterated. The style of the tower, with its high angle turrets, indicates that the building, as it now meets the eye, belongs to the seventeenth century, when it passed from the Herries family to Sir R. Murray. But, as at Pinkie, the walls may belong to an older building which was altered at the above date. The archway shown on Fig. 596 is the modern entrance