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THIRD PERIOD these towers was taken, the garrison could retire over the bridge to the other one, and the besiegers would have to commence a fresh attack.

Another peculiarity of Huntingtower is the way in which the bartizans and parapets are partly roofed in (Figs. 340 and 345), the object being to form covered passages to rooms in the roof. Here we see the roofed turret in course of formation, and the transition from the open battlements to the later arrangement, when the eaves of the roof were raised

to the top of the parapet wall. The sketch (Fig. 347) shows the corbels of the parapet and bartizans of the original tower, which are characteristic of fifteenth-century work.

Towards the end of the sixteenth century, when the idea of the mansion predominated over that of the castle, the gap between the two buildings was filled up, and a square wooden staircase introduced, so as to