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JEKVISWOOD 515 FOURTH PERIOD Adjoining the present house are the ruins of a more ancient castle, seen to the right in the view (Fig. 940). It has evidently been a quadri- FIG. 940. Jerviswood. View from the South-West. lateral tower, and the round arched doorway (Fig. 9^1), with water- table and drip-stone carved with a head, are indicative of considerable antiquity. This was probably the ancient tower of the Livingstones. The present house, with its crow-stepped gables, seems to have been FIG. 941. Jerviswood. Doorway of Ancient Tower, etc. erected by the Baillies after the middle of the seventeenth century. One of the stones, seen in Fig. 941, lying 011 the ground, contains the
