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 NOTE 221 - SECOND PERIOD smaller towers of the impoverished nobility, but even the royal palaces and castles were erected according to the same model. Dundonald Castle, a favourite residence of Robert n. and Robert in., although on a larger and grander scale than the common keeps, was still a simple tower on the same general plan. The palace at Rothesay, although connected with the circular wall of enceinte of a more ancient castle, is really a keep of the same type as Dundonald. With the close of the fourteenth century a new style of castle-build- ing began to be introduced. We may therefore regard the end of the fourteenth century as completing the Second Period of Scotch Castellated Architecture.