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GYLEM CASTLE 73 FOURTH PERIOD or shutter on the window side, the purpose of which is not veiy apparent. It is still customary in old-fashioned houses to find a salt-box or "bucket," as it is called, near the kitchen fireplaces. But this opening Fio. 53. Gylem Castle. View from the North-West. is not quite in the usual position of such a convenience. The second floor is similar to the first, with the addition of the large round turret at the north-west angle (Fig. 539), which projects outwards on corbelling,