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 THIRD PERIOD 320 PRESTON TOWER first cellar as a guard-room, and the second or deepest pit as the dungeon. The drain above referred to, and the openings for ventilation, favour this view. At Dirleton Castle there is a similar arrangement of guard-room and dungeon under the owner's private room. There was a fair amount of private accommodation in the original upper flats, but it was found desirable to extend it in the seventeenth century, when the whole building was raised by a couple of stories built above the parapet. There was thus a new house built on the top of the old one, in a totally different style of architecture. Hence the peculiar telescopic effect of the elevation. The arrangements of the plan, and the details of the corbels, etc., show that this castle belongs to the fifteenth century. CASTLE HUNTLY, PERTHSHIRE. This castle occupies a prominent site in the middle of the Carse of Gowrie, being situated on a mass of rock which rises on the west side Fio. 272. Castle Huntly. Plans. abruptly from the plain, and slopes gradually down towards the east.