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 FIRST PERIOD 88 DUNSTAFFNAGE CASTLE anything certain about fireplaces, etc. The garde-robe flues exist outside, but their interior arrangements are gone. The tower at the north-east corner is, like the keep, circular in form towards the exterior of the castle, FIG. 63. Duustaffnage Castle from the West, showing Keep, etc. and square inside the curtains. A large portion of its exterior wall has fallen inwards, and choked it up, so that not much can be ascertained as to its internal design. Its walls on the inside have evidently been stripped of the dressed stones, and probably this process hastened its fall. It is well worthy of being cleared out, and the broken wall restored. It had no direct door to the courtyard, having been entered from the battle- ments. As far as can be made out, it consisted of two floors, the under- most being some 7 or 8 feet below the level of the parapet walk. Along the north curtain, between the keep and this round tower, there have been buildings. This space is at present partly occupied by a house of the eighteenth century. The large kitchen fireplace of this house is probably ancient, as are the garde-robes, sinks, and windows of the curtain. There is also a large fireplace in this north wall near the keep, which seems to indicate that here was the hall. Another row of build- ings extended along the east curtain, with a fireplace in the square side of the north-east tower. The outer wall here bends inwards, and is thinned off from the inside ; and in all likelihood in the recess thus formed was placed the stair to the battlements, adjoining the round tower, which entered from them, as already mentioned. The two light lancet windows in this east curtain (Fig. 6l ) are built up, as well as a similar one in the north