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DELGATV CASTLE FOURTH PERIOD distinguished. It is of the simple plain and lofty type so usual in Aberdeenshire in the sixteenth century (Fig. 518), and has the corbel table ornamented with the numerous small corbels and cable pattern then so common. FIG. 518. Delgaty Castle. View from the South-East. The original entrance seems to have been in the west wall (Fig. 519), where there is a compartment or small entrance lobby covered with a groined and ribbed vault (now converted into a cellar), with a passage leading to the staircase in the angle of the walls, similar to the entrances at Gight and Towie Barclay. The original kitchen fireplace and vault still remain on the ground floor, and on the floor above this is an apart- ment (now the library) which retains its groined and vaulted ceiling,