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FOURTH PERIOD 244 GLENBUCKET CASTLE dimensions, suitable for good rooms on the upper floors. The principal staircase is fitted into one of the towers with an internal casing, which leaves part of the tower to serve as guard-rooms on the ground floor, adjoining the entrance doorway, and at the landing on the first floor. Some of the corbelled angle turrets are square, and are finished with FIG. 60S. Glenbucket Castle. View from the North-West. crow-stepped gablets. They are of considerable size, so as to form closets or small rooms off the bedrooms. The turrets of the staircase tower reduce the main gable between them to a mere strip of wall, just sufficient to contain the chimneys. HARTHILL CASTLE, ABERDEENSHIRE. This is a good and well-preserved specimen of a castle on the plan of a keep with a tower at two of the diagonally opposite corners (Fig. 699). In this case the south-west tower is round and the north-east tower rect- angular. The partial preservation of the entrance gateway of the court- yard, a feature seldom to be met with, also gives additional interest to the building. It is supposed to have been built in 1638 by Patrick Leith, a cadet of the Leiths of Edingarroch. The castle stands on a flat piece of ground near a small stream about one mile from Oyne Station. The entrance is in the re-entering angle of the square tower, with a hole for a sliding bar. A cellar or guard-room adjoins the door, with orna- mentally formed shot-holes (Fig. 699) under the narrow loops which light it. The whole of the ground floor is vaulted, and contains in the main building the kitchen and cellars. The former is well fitted up, with a