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FOURTH PERIOD 322 CAWDOR CASTLE The dormer windows on the inside of the northern courtyard (Fig. 769) also contain the initials of Sir Hugh and Lady Henrietta, with the date 1674, showing that the upper portion of the northern side was con- structed at that date. There were probably similar dormers on the exterior of the north and west fronts, but those which now exist, as well as the picturesque corbelled gablet near the north-east angle (shown Fig. 774) are modern. The square angle turret, or rather angle chamber, corbelled out at the north-west angle (Fig. 775), is probably part of the older structure, - FIG. 775. Cawdor Castle. Angle Chamber at North- West Corner. while the lofty crow-stepped gable above' it shows the heightening executed about 1670. This is an admirable specimen of that stage in the Scottish style (referred to in the Introduction to the Fourth Period), when the gable overcame the angle turret and dispossessed it from its