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English: Identifier: castellateddomes03macg

Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
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o fireplacesin the tower. The corbelling along the top is continuous, and consists offive projections, the three upper courses of which are treated as a seriesof alternately projecting and receding portions of a band (as shown inFig. 153). Above these is a cable moulding which was wrought to goround the gargoyles which projected at this level.* The chief peculiarity of Hollows is its beacon lantern, perched like achurch belfry on the apex of its south gable. Built beacons like thesewere undoubtedly frequent adjuncts of Border keeps; and although mostof them have now disappeared, a few, such as Elchieshields and the Towerof Repentance, still exist. Thus, John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, in hisHistory of Scotland, written about the middle of the sixteenth century, * For the Sketch (Fig. 153) we are indebted to R. 1). Armstrong, Esq., fromwhose History of Liddesdale the following historical particulars regarding Hollowsare chiefly derived—pp. 77 and 227. TIIIKD PERIOD 218 — HOLLOWS TOWER
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( GROUND rLooi?[,,,,l,,,,| I j FIRST FL OOR Fig. 152. - Hollows Tower. Plans and View from South-West. HOLLOWS TOWER 219 THIRD PERIOD says: Thie Mersemen in our age, against the suddan entring of theennimie, to lat sie quhan danger is, thay kendle bleises in tour heidis,or heicher places.* The system of giving warning by beacon fires wasthoroughly understood on the Borders, and was the subject of regulationby Parliament. In 1570 the Earl of Sussex issued an order to the English Wardenson the Borders as follows :— Everie man that hath a castle or a tower of

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  • bookyear:1887
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:MacGibbon__David__d__1902
  • bookauthor:Ross__Thomas__1839_1930
  • booksubject:Architecture
  • booksubject:Architecture__Domestic
  • booksubject:Castles
  • bookpublisher:Edinburgh___D__Douglas
  • bookcontributor:University_of_California_Libraries
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  • bookleafnumber:241
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