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 FIRST PERIOD 128 CAERLAVEROCK CASTLE double one, so high, so long, and so spacious, that under it was the gate, with a drawbridge, well made and strong, with a sufficiency of other defences. It has generally been asserted that the castle besieged by Edward was,jsituated a few hundred yards to the south of the present ruin. It may, however, be said with almost absolute certainty that the outer walls of the castle just described are not later than the thirteenth cen- tury. That there was a castle a little further in on the marsh to the south is obvious, but it was evidently mainly an earthwork. Fio. 102. Caerlaverock Castle. Plan of Ground Floor, etc. ;.. The siege, which was a formidable affair, with powerful engines hurl- ing huge stones day and night against the castle, terminated by the