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FOURTH PERIOD COXTON TOWER cattle. The stairs to the upper floor are, as at Hallbar, in the thickness of the walls, and are entered directly from the apartments, there being only one room on each floor. The south and east sides were no doubt enclosed with a courtyard wall, but all traces of it have now disappeared. Coxton belonged to the Inneses of Invermarkie, whose arms are carved over the entrance door. It is now the property of the Earl of Fife. This tower was occupied as a gardener's house till within recent years. HALLBAR TOWER, LANARKSHIRE. This peculiar little tower formed the fortalice of the barony of Braid- wood, and is so described in an Act of Parliament in 1581 ratifying a grant of the lands to Harie Stewart of Gogar, brother-in-law of the Earl of Arran. The tower was probably built about this time. It stands on a detached mound in the deep valley of the Tiddler Burn, about a mile from its junction with the Clyde, and 1^ mile south from Braidwood railway station. The building is of small dimensions, being 24 feet 9 inches square externally (Fig. 493). The arrangement of the rooms is FOURTH FLCOR GROUND FLOOR FIG. 493. Hallbar Tower. , Plans. the usual one. The ground floor is vaulted, and contained the stores. The first floor contains the hall, 14 feet square, being the only room with a fireplace ; the second floor, the upper hall, with garde-robe projected on corbels ; the third floor, the bedroom ; and the fourth floor, a room enter- ing from the battlements. The basement and third floor are vaulted ; the other floors are of wood 011 stone corbels.