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FOURTH PERIOD 292 DRUMINNOR CASTLE curve. Examples of three-sided door-heads occur at Borthwick and Huntly Castles, and in several churches in Scotland, but this five-sided arch is probably unique. This doorway, and the three coats of arms of the Forbeses, etc., together with the heavy corbelling above, give it a striking effect. It is supposed to date from 1577. The upper portion has been modernised. TILQUHILLY CASTLE, KINCARDINESHIRE, A plain but massive specimen of a Scottish house of the end of the sixteenth century, situated about three miles south of Crathes Station, and now occupied as a farm residence. It is on the plan of the central keep, with two towers at diagonally opposite angles, but modified so as to admit of a good square staircase between the south-west tower and the main block. The towers in this instance are both of the square or FIG. 748. Tilquhilly Castle. View from the South-East. oblong form, but they no longer maintain a tower-like appearance externally ; here they simply form part of the house (Fig. 748). There are no angle turrets, but the corners of the building are all rounded off and corbelled out to the square near the eaves, which produces a picturesque appearance, and forms a reminiscence of the effect of the projecting angle turret. The ground floor (Fig. 749) is all vaulted,