. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. FIRST PERIOD — 96 — LOCII DOON CASTLE The wall of enceinte continues southwards from the gatehouse alongthe top of the steep bank of the southern or outer courtyard (Fig. 49).Some buildings seem to have stood against it at the south or highestpoint, but the foundations only can now be traced. From the gatehousea passage led round the lower hill to the keep, and also to extensivebuildings which occupied the eastern side of the courtyard. These, nodoubt, were the hall and the other structures whi
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. FIRST PERIOD — 96 — LOCII DOON CASTLE The wall of enceinte continues southwards from the gatehouse alongthe top of the steep bank of the southern or outer courtyard (Fig. 49).Some buildings seem to have stood against it at the south or highestpoint, but the foundations only can now be traced. From the gatehousea passage led round the lower hill to the keep, and also to extensivebuildings which occupied the eastern side of the courtyard. These, nodoubt, were the hall and the other structures which were required to be. Pig. 49.—Urquhart Castle. View from Nortli-West. erected under the charter of 1509, but their outline can now withdifficulty be traced in the turf-covered mounds. The windows in thecentral portion may have been those of the kitchen, and over it wouldbe the prescribed hall, chamber, and other needful houses and apaitments have also been coiistructed against the westeim enceinte,adjoining the keep, but they are now reduced to ruins only a few feetin heisfht. LOCH DOON CASTLE, Ayrshire. This castle stands upon a rocky islet in Loch Doon, a long, narrow lakesituated in the wild and mountainous region at the confines of Ayrshireand Kirkcudbrightshire. The loch is about eight miles long by abouta quarter of a mile in breadth. Towards the upper or southern end itmakes a sudden bend, where the reach containing the small island onwhich the castle stands comes into view (Fig. 50). This upper portion FIRST PRKIOD _ 97 -- LOCII DOON CASTLE
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