Castle Craig (11)
Playing amateur archaeologist and trying to interpret what is what at this end of the tower, is a good way of wasting half an hour!  Clearly there was a stair-well on the right and the remains of two windows that formerly lit the stairs, can be seen in the break in the wall.  The remains of a few of the stair steps remain, from which it can be seen that the stair went the 'wrong way'!  You would have had to turn anti-clockwise as you climbed these stairs, not clockwise, as is most often the case!

At first sight, Castle Craig would appear to have been a simple oblong tower, but this was not the case.  The c.1880 photograph (photo #5) shows a wall partially across this, the south-west end of the tower.  This wall was evidently the south-west side of the stair-well (the outer wall of the stair-well block, not the curved inner wall).  If this had been a simple oblong tower, with a stair-well in the corner, the wall face I am talking about would be the south-west gable, an external wall, but it isn't because it has a line of joist holes across it at 2nd floor level, and for joists to have been in this wall, the floor they supported must have been perpendicular to the surviving tower. 

The c.1880 photo also shows a line of joist holes at eaves level, and although most of the wall they were in has fallen, three of those joist holes are visible here, one to the left of the two beams tied together with blue rope, and two more to the right.

MacGibbon &amp; Ross stated that &quot;the structure has extended further southwards than it now does&quot;, which doesn't tell us much, while Canmore mentions that &quot;a wing which probably extended to the NW, and a stairway in the re-entrant angle, have fallen to ruin.&quot;  The Wikipedia entry states &quot;The north-east wing still stands and remains roofed, although another wing to the north-west has collapsed.&quot;

If you put all this together, you get the following.  From this angle, the existing tower extends away north-eastwards.  The north-west wing referred to by Canmore and Wikipedia extended off to the left, further enclosing the courtyard.  There is no indication of the NW wing connecting to the outside of the remaining wall on the left, which I think (based on the door position), currently ends where the walls once met, which means the existing NE wing, continued on towards the camera, by the width of the NW wing.

That  makes sense to me, but I'm well aware it may not to anyone else!!

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