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DUFFIELD CASTLE. 



The few sculptured stones that remain were all obtained, as has 

 been stated, from the debris wherewith the well was choked. Of 

 the more important of these we give drawings. 



The two stones here represented (fig. i) were found apart, 

 and have only been placed together for effect. But it is quite 

 possible that the engaged shaft of the lower one may have 

 been originally below the carved impost of the capital, though 

 not immediately beneath. These stones seem to have come from 

 a window jamb of the State rooms, and those of fig. 2 from a 

 doorway on the same floor. It may here be noticed, as is roughly 

 shown in the drawings, that whilst a good many of the dressed stones 

 show the diagonal marking known as " Norman axeing," others, 

 apparently for interior use, are most regularly and effectively 

 chisel-dressed in parallel interrupted lines. This latter dressing 

 is, we believe, very exceptional, but it does not denote any 

 different period or date to those of the usual diagonal axeing, for 



we noticed two or three 

 stones upon whose different 

 faces both treatments might 

 be observed. 



The next piece of moulding 

 seems to be from the side of 

 a wide doorway, possibly the 

 entrance from the vestibule of 

 the fore building. 

 Then we have a plain piece of chevron 

 moulding, which has been part of a wide 

 arch, and has most likely run above two 

 double lights of the State floor, of course 

 in the interior. 



The last small portion here drawn is a 

 fragment of good 

 and unusual 

 moulding formed 

 by a series of 



small elliptic arches. 



It resembles some of the late Norman 



