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 SCOTSTARVET TOWER 4,1 FOURTH PERIOD baron of the fifteenth century ; and any one unacquainted with the Domestic Architecture of Scotland would probably be surprised to learn that this narrow, confined,, and defensive tower was erected by a Scottish gentleman of considerable literary culture and refinement so late as the year 1627, while Inigo Jones was at the height of his career in England. As characteristic of the persistence of the keep-plan in Scotland, it may be noted that many who saw this feudal tower build- ing in their youth may have lived to see the classic front of Craighall (now a sorry ruin) rise within sight of Scotstarvet, while in the interval such a house as Pitreavie, in the same county, was erected on a plan perfectly suitable for a gentleman's residence in modern times. f FIG. 509. Scotstarvet Tower. Plans and Section. Like Coxton and other towers of the seventeenth century, Scotstarvet exactly resembles in its general scheme such towers as Kinnaird, Smail- holm, Mearns, or Auchinleck, erected in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; and it is only when one comes to minor details, such as the fireplace in the upper floor,, that it is seen to be a late building erected