. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. ns may still be traced in the base-ment floor (Fig. 91). The entrance was in the re-entering angle of themain block. It was on the level of the courtyard and passed into a shortpassage, from which access was obtained to three vaulted cellars. The en-trance doorway and the doors of these cellars have all pointed arches. Thecircular staircase (which seems to have been where shown on the BasementPlan) was approached through the southmost of these vaulted chambers,which was probably a guardi^oom, a
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. ns may still be traced in the base-ment floor (Fig. 91). The entrance was in the re-entering angle of themain block. It was on the level of the courtyard and passed into a shortpassage, from which access was obtained to three vaulted cellars. The en-trance doorway and the doors of these cellars have all pointed arches. Thecircular staircase (which seems to have been where shown on the BasementPlan) was approached through the southmost of these vaulted chambers,which was probably a guardi^oom, and ascended to the hall, and mostlikely to the upper floors and battlements, being carried up, like those atCraigmillar, in the thickness of the wall. The wing seems to have containedthe prison on the ground floor. It was entered from a trap in an inter-mediate wooden floor, constituting a guardroom, of which the door andwindow still exist. The guardroom would enter off the main a later period an addition (shown by hatched lines on Plans) was SECOND PERIOD ~ 146 — DALHOUSIE CASTLE. PALHOUSIK CASTLE 147 - SECOND PERIOD
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