CRICHTON CASTLE 215 SECOND PERIOD hall by a stone partition, which occupies the usual position of the " screens." The hall is 44 feet long by 26 feet 8 inches broad. The fireplace is enriched with carving similar to that at Borthwick, and the outer and inner doors are also carved and shaped in the style of the fifteenth century. FIG. 182. Crichton Castle. View in Courtyard. Above this hall, at a height of 14 feet, is another hall (Fig. 181) of the same dimensions, which would usually be regarded as the withdrawing- room, but would appear (as we shall afterwards see) to have been also used as a private dining-room. It has a stone cornice carved with flowers and ball ornaments, and a handsome fireplace with a straight arched lintel, the arch stones being joggled 011 the joints. It seems also to have had an open timber roof, similar to that of the banqueting-hall at Doune. This upper hall being on nearly the same level as the hall in the keep, with
