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 LOCHLEVEN CASTLE 14? SECOND PERIOD castle afterwards passed into the hands of a branch of the Douglases, by whom it was held when Queen Mary was imprisoned in it. It is now the property of Sir Graham Montgomery. Pio. 114. Lochleven Castle. Plans. The keep (Fig. 114) is small, being only 22 feet 6 inches by 16 feet 6 inches internally, with walls 7 to 8 feet thick. The basement floor and first floor are vaulted. The basement, which is several feet below the level of the court, had probably an outer door where the present one is. There is no communication from the basement to the first floor but by a hatch in the vault. The most unusual feature in this keep is the entrance door (Fig. 115), which is on the second floor above the basement floor, the only access to the first floor being by descending the stair from the second floor. There is now no access to the upper floors above the second, but it will be obsei-ved that the parapet rests on simple corbels, without machicolations, and that there is no angle bartizan or turret at the corner next the interior of the courtyard, where it would not be needed for defence against assailants from the outside of the castle. The view from the exterior of the castle (Fig. 116) shows the three angle bartizans. The wall of the courtyard is for the most part old, probably fourteenth-century work, and has a parapet walk all round. The round tower at the south-east corner of the enceinte is more recent, apparently of the sixteenth century. There have been much more extensive buildings on two sides of the courtyard, which probably existed when Queen Mary was confined here,