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 FOURTH PERIOD 428 NEWARK CASTLE shown by cross-hatching on the ground plan. This has evidently been the gatehouse to the courtyard, and contained the vaulted entrance passage. It measures 23 feet 6 inches by 20 feet 1 inch over the walls. FIG. 867. Newark Castle. View from the North-East. The passage has the usual stone seat, and a slit so placed as to command the outside of the western enclosing wall already referred to. A corkscrew stair leads from the guard-room to the two upper floors, which, like the keep, consist of single apartments, each having the same accommodation, save that in the gatehouse the windows have stone seats. The prevalence of the bead moulding is to be observed in the second period in place of the simple splay of the first. Alongside of the garde- robe on the first floor there is a small O.G. arched ambry. The buildings of the third period comprise the remainder of the