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 71
by sloping skews.This alteration did away with thegablets of the dormer windowswhich originally crowned the walls.The carved stones, or at least someof them, shown in Figs. 635 and 636,probably represent these gablets.They were found built into thewalls of the neighbouring farm-steading. The date… … Fig. 637.—Colliston Castle.Arms and Motto on Turret. VAYNE CASTLE — 55 — FOURTH PERIOD Beaton, he having been murdered six years before that date. Warden, inhis History of Angus, states that the castle was built in 1583 ; but this appeals to be a mistake. In a charter signed by the cardinalin 1545…
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