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be required, as the walls skirt almost inaccessible precipices. 

 In the west wall there is a rectangular projection which 

 Mr. King describes as the foundation of another small tower, 

 and which Mr. Hartshorne calls a sallyport. Neither of these 

 suggestions commends itself to me. At the south-west 

 angle there are some remains of a rude arch four feet wide, 

 which Mr. King describes as the site of a small tower with a 

 window looking outwards. Mr, Hartshorne considers this 



Ground Plan of the Castle. 



building, whatever it was, to be of later date than the Keep 

 itself. The wall on the south-east side is modern, and merely 

 protective to visitors. 



The keep, as is usual, stands on the highest part of the 

 area; it is rectangular, like most Norman donjons of the period. 

 On the basement floor the walls are eight feet thick, built of 

 concrete made of broken pieces of limestone mixed with 



