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ADDENDA et CORRIGENDA.

1. Dirleton Castle, No. 27.-Excavation by
H.M. Office of Works has revealed 13th century
masonry containing a latrine flue at the north-
west corner of the rock, while, within the
courtyard, foundations of a series of buildings
of indeterminate date and purpose have been
laid bare. A circular oven or kiln, lined like
the ovens of the bakehouse in the east cellars
with marine stone from North Berwick, was
found on the line of the west curtain, and near
by lay a circular stone basin and a stone trough.
At a later stage the oven went out of use and
an outlet was made opening over the cliff.

2. Tantallon Castle, No. 106.-In the course
of excavations conducted by H.M. Office of
Works, the structure of the barbican has been
revealed (fig. 102). It terminated in D shaped
turrets, within which swung a drawbridge.
There were two storeys, both latterly vaulted.
From the lower, a doorway in each wall opened
on the solum of the ditch ; the southern door-
way had been built up and a gun loop formed
in the infilling. The rybats removed from this
door were apparently re-used to build the
present entrance. When the barbican was
vaulted, a stair descending to the lower storey
was formed in the entrance passage.

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Within the courtyard the building on the
east cliff, cutting the re-entrant angle, proved
to be the outer wall of a 14th century range
lit by narrow openings and provided with a
garderobe and fireplace.

The buildings at the east end of the north
curtain contained 3 chambers in the basement.
The base of a stair tower projecting within
the courtyard has been exposed immediately
beyond the original N.E. angle. The room from
which it was entered contained a small oven
and a fireplace with slight traces of a second
fireplace.

3. Seacliffe Tower, No. 109, should be in the
parish of Whitekirk and Tynninghame.

4. Fountainhall, No. 137.-The west wing
had originally a narrower frontage and has
been extended westward to the line of the main
west gable.

5. The Hopes, No. 188, should be in the
parish of Garvald.