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GARDYNE CASTLE - 4-97 FOURTH PERIOD GARDYNE CASTLE, FORFARSHIRE. This is an interesting and peculiar specimen of Scottish architecture. The house stands about one mile south from Guthrie Junction, on the top of the sloping bank of a stream which joins the Lunan Water. The building has undergone alterations (in 174-0), and is now a parallelogram on plan with a circular staircase turret projecting at the back or eastern side, and might as regards its plan be a modern mansion. FIG. 924. Gardyne Castle. View from the South-East. In the western wall there is a coat of arms with the date 1568_, and the motto, " Speravi in te, Domine." The arms can now scarcely be distinguished, but according to Jervise they are the shield of Gardyne of VOL. II.