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 THIRD PERIOD 358 FEDERATE CASTLE seen in the view (Fig. 311). The entrance is not in the usual place, viz., the re-entering angle, but in the west wall, almost below the wide window FIG. 310. Federate Castle. Plans. shown on the plan. It led directly into the kitchen, and a circular stair on the left hand gave access to the upper rooms. The first floor, which is the one shown on the plan, contained two apartments the hall, 29 feet by 1 8 feet 6 inches, by 1 7 feet or 1 8 feet high, being one, and the private room in the wing the other. On the first and second floors, in the thickness of the walls, are numerous wall closets and garde-robes. There seems to be no definite information ,as to the date of the erection of this castle. The property of Federate was possessed by the Crawfords in the end of the thirteenth and the be- ginning of the fourteenth centuries, and, judging from its style, it was probably erected about the end of the fifteenth century. The keep towers of the Third Period which we have above described are detached buildings standing alone or surrounded with their enclosing walls. We shall now proceed to the consideration of castles of which similar keeps have formed the nucleus, but which have been enlarged and extended so as to become castles with buildings surrounding a courtyard. FIG. 3ii. Federate Castle.