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 THIRD PERIOD 362 EDZELL CASTLE the fifteenth century, when the primitive,, simple features of the earlier style began to yield to the growing taste for ornament. Numerous examples of this form of enrichment are to be met with in all parts of the country. As we shall afterwards see, the degradation of the corbel into mere ornament was gradually pushed to such an extent that at last the purpose of the corbel was entirely lost to view, and it became a mere chequer ornament. FIG. 314. Edzell Castle. Plan of First Floor. There is nothing very special in the arrangements of the keep. There are two cellars on the ground floor, one with the usual private stair from the hall. The hall occupies the first floor (Fig. 314), and has an elegant little vaulted private room in the north-west angle. The upper stories appear to have had the usual arrangements, but the floors are now gone. In connection with this simple keep a very extensive quadrangle was erected by David, ninth Earl of Crawford, at the end of the sixteenth