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 SECOND PERIOD 162 TH REAVE CASTLE ment must have been dark, having only two small windows in a wall about 8 feet thick. It contains the well, filled up and concealed with FIG. 128. Threave Castle. East Front and Entrance Gateway. rubbish, although within living memory it was clear to the bottom ; but unfortunately large portions of the vaulting have fallen and heaped the place with ruins. Near the well is a drain from a sink, and the three recesses in the east wall were probably for buckets containing a supply of water to stand in. In the north-west corner of the vault a dungeon with an arched roof has been walled off, and is entered from a hatchway at the floor level of the entresol. The kitchen seems to have been in the entresol, having a fireplace in the south wall, and a sink with a drain in one of the windows.
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