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 FOURTH PERIOD FIDDES CASTLE corbelled out over the entrance door, and may have been useful for defence, as well as ornamental and agreeable. The south-west tower and also the north turret are corbelled out from the circle to the square at the top story (Fig. 601), the label moulding of the northern counties being freely used. The corbelled angle turrets are two stories in height, which may be considered (along with several of the other features above referred to) as indicative of a date late in the sixteenth century or early in the seventeenth. Pio. 601.-Fiddes Castle. View from the North- West. A very small outlay would preserve this fine and unique specimen of Scottish Architecture, which is now fast falling into decay. KILLOCHAN CASTLE, AYRSHIRE. This is a good specimen of a mansion-house of the end of the sixteenth century. It is still inhabited by the proprietor, Sir Reginald Cathcart, the representative of a very old family in Ayrshire, the charter for Carlton (where the remains of the square peel tower of the Cathcarts still exist) being as old as the time of Robert i. Killochan Castle, as the inscription over the entrance door informs us, was built in 1586 by " Ihone Cathcart of Carltoun." It stands on a fertile haugh near the Water of Girvan, and about three miles from the town of that name. It is designed on the L plan (Fig. 602), but with some modifications, the round tower at the south-east corner being very unusual. A reason