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FOURTH PERIOD 404 AIRTH CASTLE south and east fronts still remain. As pointed out by Billings, the tower is interesting as exhibiting both the roofed turret and the open bartizan, and the dormers of the east front are specially worthy of attention from the peculiarity and beauty of the ornamentation of the tympanum, and the careful design of the mouldings (Fig. 845). One dormer represents the foliage of the fern, and the other has the field spangled with stars. Adjoining the castle is the old church of Airth, which contains some Norman work. The castle probably belongs to the end of the sixteenth century. COREHOUSE CASTLE, LANARKSHIRE. This crumbling ruin occupies a splendid situation on the top of the lofty cliffs which overhang the famous Corra Linn on the Clyde, a few miles FIG. 846. Corehouse Castle. View from the South- West. above Lanark (Fig. 846). The rock on which the castle stands is an isolated promontory, with perpendicular faces on three sides, protected by the river at its base, and cut off on the fourth side by a deep fosse from the