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MUNESS CASTLE 259 FOURTH PERIOD the three forms most generally adopted at the end of the seventeenth century. FIG. 713. Muness Castle. View from the South-West. At Muness we have a good example of the Z plan or oblong block with towers at two of the diagonally opposite angles, while Scalloway is FIG. 714. Muness Castle. Details. built on the L plan (slightly modified), and Earl Patrick's Palace at Kirkwall is in the form of a quadrangle.