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FIRST PERIOD 104 BOTHWELL CASTLE rebuilt towards the end of the fourteenth century, or the beginning of the fifteenth century. The style of the masonry is greatly inferior to the early work, and the junctions of the new and old work are distinctly traceable. The forms of the flanking buttresses, with their corbelling and overhanging turrets, also indicate the above period (Figs. 77 and 78). FIG. 80. View of Drawbridge in North-East Tower (restored). The north-east tower was square, and has been large and strong, in order to protect this, which may be considered the weakest point of the enceinte. This tower is now greatly ruined, but in Slezer's view,