INVERUGIE CASTLE 325 FOURTH PERIOD with floors and roof, and erected an observatory on its top at great expense. FIG. 777. Inverugie Castle. Interior of Hall. The northmost round tower is a total wreck, as shown in Fig. 778. There are ranges of two-story buildings, indicated by hatched lines on the plans, containing various offices and forming a courtyard on the west side. This courtyard is reached from the public road, which passes the castle on the east in front of the round towers, through a very fine arched gateway, ornamented with facet blocks in the seventeenth-century manner (Fig. 778). Over the gateway is a dilapidated panel for arms. The shield, which contained the arms of the Earl Marischal, is now, we understand, in
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