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FOURTH PERIOD 56 CAKEMUIR CASTLE the outside to the height of the battlements of the main building, and finished as a square cape-house above. Although the walls of the tower are of considerable thickness,, none of the floors are vaulted rather a singular circumstance in a building of this class. As will be seen from the views (Figs. 522 and 523), the walls are provided with shot-holes in the FIG. 522. Cakerauir Castle. View from the North-East. upper floors. The large window seen in the gable (north-east view) is closed on the inside with a hinged shutter folding against the wall in one piece, the other side having an imitation shutter, the whole unpainted and unvarnished. The small splayed window shown in the staircase near the door is filled with plain leaded glass, believed to be contemporaneous with the building. Work of this kind is rare in Scotland, but a fine and much larger example than this existed till a few years ago in a window in the north side of the Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. There is also an old door sneck or handle shown on the plan. As indicated on the plan of the battlements (Fig. 521), there are two covered recesses for watchers. The one at the west end, facing the south (of which a perspective sketch is given, Fig. 524) is still quite entire., with