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[Continued from page 70

Near Latheronwheel there is a fair amount of
timber by the roadside and Dunbeath is one of
the few estates in the country on which any planting
has been done.

[Opposite page] Drawing of a castle
Dunbeath from a drawing by [--] Henderson dated
1830 - lent to me by Miss Henderson Ormelie Lodge, Thurso.
See also Daniell's coloured print.

[Margin] Dunbeath Castle.
(7)

Dunbeath Castle stands on the landward end of a
narrow promontory, projecting seaward, about 1 m. [mile] S. [South] of
the village of Dunbeath and 12 m. [miles] N. [North] of Helmsdale.
In plan the castle is oblong with a frontage of 62'
and a breadth of 25'. The walls of that part of
the structure containing the present entrance hall
and the chamber to the left which has been the
kitchen of the castle, are from 9' to 10' in thickness
and probably represent an erlier keep in:
:corporated in the present building which dates
from about the year 1600. At the corners
of the upper part of the structure are small
roofed turrets except at the [--] where the
turret has been removed.

[Margin] see photo

The frontage
is relieved with two semicircular turrets rising
from the 1st floor and terminating in square
? gabled dormers. In the thickness of the back
wall opposite the present entrance a secret stair
1'.3" wide goes upwards from the basement.
The hoods above two small wiindows
on the 2nd floor in the front turret bear armorial
shields each charged with what appears
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