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BLAIRFINDY CASTLE 83 FOURTH PERIOD angles. The entrance doorway is in the re-entering angle of the wing, and is defended from a squint hole in the wall. A passage leads to the kitchen, with its usual large fireplace, oven, and water drain, and to the cellar, which has the ordinary private stair from the hall in the thick- ness of the wall. The kitchen and cellar are vaulted. The principal staircase, which is wide, occupies the wing. It starts near the entrance FIG. 548. Blairftndy Castle. View from the North-East. doorway, and ascends to the first floor only, the access to the upper floors being by a newel staircase corbelled out iri the re-entering angle of the wing. The hall as usual occupies the whole of the first floor. The two upper floors are now inaccessible, but they no doubt contained the usual accommodation. The view (Fig. 548) shows the entrance doorway and the shield above