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CAWDOR CASTLE 317 FOURTH PERIOD is carried up flush with the face of the walls of the tower without string- course or corbelling (like that of Craigmillar), probably represents the original parapet (Fig. 769), but the angle turrets and the roof (with PAJfL OVER EKTKANCE JXJO.RWAYI .Dc NLDG W. )RMEJ? Wl W////////////A FIG. 769. Cawdor Castle. Section. KITCHEN a small attic or guard-room within it, Fig. 770) have been reconstructed in the seventeenth century. The angle turrets are peculiar in form, being circular in their lower half and octagonal in the upper half (Fig. 771). The lower portion may perhaps represent the older open bartizans, on the top of which the octagonal turrets with their circular conical roofs may have been raised, very much in the same way as the square cape-house at Benholme Tower has been set upon an older circular turret. When the first extensions were erected on the walls of enceinte we have now no means of judging, but the lower part of the walls on the north and west sides, with their small loops and vaulted cellars, seem to be much older than the superstructure (Figs. 772, 773). Most likely a hall and other apartments were found necessary during the sixteenth century, as was generally the case at that time. Exten- sions would then be erected on the north and west walls of enceinte, V tr Fio. 770. Cawdor Castle. Plan of Battlements.