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FOURTH PERIOD 22 AMISFIELD TOWER striking example of the adherence to the old keep plan, so remarkable in Scotland, while its external appearance is so entirely altered by the multiplicity of the turrets and ornaments piled up upon it as almost com- pletely to conceal its origin. FIG. 489. Amisfield Tower. View from the South-East. Amisfield was the property of the Charteris family, who held the estate from a very early date. One of the coats of arms on the second