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 KILDRUMMIE CASTLE 109 FIRST PERIOD taining the hall are the best-preserved portion, and they are for the most part only about 5 feet high. The south wall shows remains of four loops which lighted the basement, the hall being on the first floor. The floor of the hall seems to have been of wood, as there is no indica- tion of the basement having been vaulted. The chapel is conspicuous (Figs. 87, 88, and 88A), with its three tall lancet windows, in its only remaining wall to the east. These from their style are undoubtedly thirteenth-century work, and must have formed part of the original KILORUMMyCASTL X ABERQEENSHIRE FIG. 85. Kildrummie Castle. Ground Plan. building. As at Bothwell, the chapel has been larger than in the later castles, measuring about 35 feet by 20 feet. The masonry of the buildings generally is built with the finely dressed and coursed ash- lar characteristic of the period. It is of freestone, which must have been brought from a considerable distance, as there is none in Aberdeenshire. The form of the windows in the north-east tower (Figs. 86, 87) is unusual, and seems to point to the English occupation for its origin, being the