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 158
till remains ;the windows are very small and narrow ; the upper floors would containthe lords private apartments. The floors are about 9 feet in height, andthe joists rested on ledges all round, formed by the thinning of the wallas it ascended. Beyond the keep a long narrow passage or court… … Fig. 82.—The Old Man of Wick, from South-Wesit. In the fourteenth centuiy this keep was occupied by Sir Reginald deCheyne, descendant of one of the Norman families who held laige estatesin the North, The Earl of Sutherland succeeded to the estate by marriagewith the heiress of Sir Reginald ; and it…
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