. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. vaults are now gone. Along the south side the castlemeasures 68 feet 5 inclies by 35 feet 7 inches on the east face of theprojection. The wing is also vaulted on the ground floor, but at a level2 or 3 feet lower than the vault of the main building, so as so provideheight for the usual entresol in the wing. There are two entrancedoorways to the castle, one on the ground level and one on the first CESSFORD CASTLE — 139 SECOND PERIOD floor. The lower entrance doorway is in the re-entering angle of
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. vaults are now gone. Along the south side the castlemeasures 68 feet 5 inclies by 35 feet 7 inches on the east face of theprojection. The wing is also vaulted on the ground floor, but at a level2 or 3 feet lower than the vault of the main building, so as so provideheight for the usual entresol in the wing. There are two entrancedoorways to the castle, one on the ground level and one on the first CESSFORD CASTLE — 139 SECOND PERIOD floor. The lower entrance doorway is in the re-entering angle of the eastwall, and has been secured with two doors, one opening outwards andthe other inwards, one of which would, in all probability, be an ironyett. A passage 13 feet 6 inches long through the wall leads directlyto the ground floor of the main building, which was again secured withdouble doors. The lower vault was divided into two stories, the joistholes for the intermediate wooden floor being observable along both ground floor was feebly lighted with two narrow slits, one at each. Fig. S5.—Cessford Castle. Plan. end (being those shown on the Plan, with steps in the sill), and the floorin the vault above had slightly wider windows, with an additional windowin the west wall (also shown on Plan of Ground Floor). On the left of the entrance passage a door leads into the circular stairwhich runs to the top of the building, and by a passage to the darkvaulted chambers in the wing. The smaller of these, which is only 6 feet3 inches high, and the adjoining passage, have each a slit commanding SECOND PERIOD — 140 — CESSFORD CASTLE the doorway; the larger chamber seems to have been the guardroom,being near the entrance door and also close to the dungeon. The floor ofthe latter (now choked with ruins) was probably 6 or 7 feet lower thanthe adjoining floors, and its arched roof, now fallen, was about 3 feetabove the floor of the guardroom. The dungeon was entered by a
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