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 THIRD PERIOD 284 BENHOLME TOWER BENHOLME TOWER, KINCARDINESHIRE, A fifteenth-century keep, situated on the high ground above the sea a few miles north from Montrose. It is still entire, and is attached to a modern mansion. The tower is crowned with a parapet and angle bartizans (Fig. 236), having the corbels of the usual form of this period. FIG. 23(i. Benholme Tower. View from the South-West. A square cape house, or watch-turret, has been erected at a later date upon the top of one of the bartizans. This indicates in a more primitive form the various additions which were sometimes made on the parapets, by raising them and covering them in with roofs, as at Comlongan and Newark Castles. The hall (Fig. 237) is unaltered, and contains all the ordinary arrangements windows with deep square recesses, wall chambers, garde-robe, etc. The ornamental ambry (Fig. 237) or side-