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DESCRIPTION OF ALNWICK CASTLE. 
GROUND FLAN 1N 1650. 
1. Water Tower. 2. Garret. 3. Stables, not now existing. 4. Exchequer 
house, not now existing. 5. Garret. 6. Abbot’s Tower. 7. Falconer’s Tower, 
pulled down in 1860. 8. Outer Ward or Ballium. * Caterer’s Tower. 9. 
Middle Gateway. 10. Inner Ward or Keep. 11. Armourer’s Tower, pulled 
down in 1860, together with the curtain wall below it, and the Falconer’s Tower 
adjoining. 12. Hdwardian Octogon Entrance Tower. 18. Postern Tower with 
Sally Port, now occupied as Museum of Roman and British Antiquities. 14. 
Garden Tower. 15. Middle Ward. 16. Chapel (mot now existing). 17. 
Conduit. 18. Constables Tower, now occupied with a collection of accoutre- 
ments of the Ducal Yeomanry Cavalry. 19. Garret. 20. Ravine Tower, not 
now existing, the new wall in its plaee called the Bloody Gap, and a garret, 
adjacent Hotspur’s Chair. 21. Record Tower, the upper floor is now occupied 
as a Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, the lower floor for records. 22. Stream 
from the moors called the Bow-burn, now covered. 23. Moat now filled in, but 
the ancient retaining wall exists several feet below the surface. 24. Draw-bridge, 
25. Entrance Barbican. 
Alnwick Castile. By F. R. Wiusoy, M.R.I.A., Member of the 
Northern Architectural Association, &c., &c. 
Tue history of Alnwick Castle may be read in its masonry. 
Fragments of the Norman curtain-wall, distinguishable by its 
even courses of small white stones, mark the extent of the enclosed 
space in the Norman fortress, and the presence of an inner Nor- 
man vaulted gateway denotes the site of the Normankeep. We 
may next see in the Kdwardian masonry—in which much larger 
