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 THIRD PERIOD 376 ROSSLVN CASTLE In the later buildings, again, we see the more enlarged requirements of the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century met by the extensive accommodation in the basement floors, the large and elegant hall, the withdrawing-room with elaborately ornamented ceiling, on the level of the courtyard, and the bedrooms above, which PIG. 325. Rosslyn Castle. Interior of Dining Room. are approached by a wide square stair at one end, and by a private newel stair in a projecting turret at the other. A very remarkable and quite unique feature in this castle is the west wall of enceinte, with its buttresses or " rounds." We are not aware of any other castle provided with similar defences. The only example at all analogous to it is that of the wall of enceinte of the Chateau Gaillard, before referred to (Fig. 20). 1 1 An interesting and valuable paper on ' Rosslyn Castle : its Buildings Past and Present,' will be found in vol. xii. p. 412, of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.