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an illustrated drawing of the inside of a house with its walls and floors cut out

This diagram, photographed inside the castle, shows the keep as it probably looked when it stood alone in the fifteenth century. It was built by the Maxwells of Calderwood. Unusually the turnpike stair in this, the oldest part of the castle, rotates anticlockwise (as you climb). Most castle spiral staircases rotate clockwise, the theory being that a clockwise stair is easier for a right handed swordsman to defend. I have seen this in one other castle before (and I can’t remember which…

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