The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 146
hewall of the basement, which is 9 or 10 feet in thickness, not above 15 feetin height, and is absolutely without any other architectural features.This fragment stands on the top of a basaltic headland on the nortliernside of the Sound of Mull and a few miles from its eastern end (Fig. 72).The… … Fig. 72.—Ardtornish Castle, from the West. of Ardtornish has doubtless closely resembled that of Duart, but it doesnot appear to have ever been attached to a wall of enceinte like thelatter. Ardtornish was the castle of the first Lord of the Isles, and wasprobably built by him in the fourteenth…
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