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 DUNTARVIE CASTLE 517 FOURTH PERIOD The internal arrangements (Fig. 944) likewise generally hold a good deal to the old forms, but with a new meaning. The ground floor is all vaulted and lighted with small windows. The kitchen at the east end has the usual large fireplace and chimney, but it has also the unusual pertinents of a separate scullery and back door. The western portion contains cellars and a small room entering from the outside, which may have been a garden house. FIG. 943. Duntarvie Castle. View from the North-East. The straight stair in one flight is what was frequently adopted early in the seventeenth century, as at Drum, Craigievar, Northfield, etc. This leads to the two principal public rooms on the first floor, with a separate entrance to each. These may in this house be regarded as almost identical with the modern dining-room and drawing-room. The former at the west end has direct communication with the kitchen below by the central stair, and with the wine-cellar by the usual small private stair at the west end, where there are also two private rooms. The two spiral stairs, corbelled out in the angles of the towers, conduct