90 On Edin's Hall, by John TurnbuU. 



Opening from the inner and wider part of the entrance-passage 

 on each side of it, and formed in the thickness of the wall, is a 

 small chamber or cell. The cell on the north side of the passage 

 enters and is on the same level with the passage. The doorway 

 to it is 3 feet wide through a wall 2 feet thick. This chamber is 

 kidney shaped ; the south end in which is the doorway being, 

 however, cut square. Its width is 7 feet, and its extreme 

 length from the south-east to the north-west corner is i6ft. 4in. 

 The thickness of the wall between the chamber and the interior 

 court is 4 feet, and between the chamber and the outer face of 

 the building is 8 feet. The walls remain to a height of 6 feet, 

 and at the north end show a convergence inwards as if to form a 

 vault-shaped roof. The floor is paved. 



The chamber on the south side of the passage enters by a 

 doorway 2|- feet wide, which is 2^ feet above the level of the 

 passage. It had originally been only l^ foot high, and has 

 been raised to the present height by another stone, a foot thick, 

 being put on the old sill, but recessed from 4 to 6 inches, so as 

 to form a narrow step. Inside the chamber is a rude stair of 

 three steps down. The chamber measures 7ft. Sin. each way, 

 being nearly a square, with one of the angles rounded. To the 

 south of this chamber and separated from it by a partition 4 feet 

 thick, is another chamber, which is of the same width as that just 

 described, but only 5 feet long, and rounded at the south end. 

 In the south-east corner traces of a fire were found. There is 

 no entrance to this chamber through the partition or elsewhere. 

 These two chambers had originally formed one chamber of the 

 same kidney- shape squared at the one end, as that on the north 

 side of the doorway, and exactly the same in size. The partition 

 or dividing wall has been built after the chamber was formed, 

 and rests against the walls of it, but is not bonded into them. 

 The walls of these chambers are from 3 to 5 feet high. 



All the other cells or chambers enter from the interior court. 

 Of these there are three, or at least there are three entrances 

 from the court — for each entrance leads to more than one cell. 

 The entrance to the cells in the north side of the building is 3ft. 

 2in. wide. Facing it and projecting from the opposite wall is a 

 partition, the thickness of which is exactly the breadth of the 

 door. It projects 5ft. from the north wall, and as the chambers 

 or cells are 7ft. wide, it leaves entrances to the right and left 



