Dunglass Castle (8)
This is the angle turret on the north-west corner of the tower-house's main block. This is what is referred to as chequer corbelling, the pattern made from a mixture of continuous corbels and individual corbels, although the term is more often used when there are multiple courses of individual corbels, offset from one another, to create the chequer effect.
Although indistinguishable now, the lowermost corbel course has a representation of the Colquhoun arms, with the initial C, and next to it, a man's face. They were still visible in the late 19th century and were drawn by MacGibbon and Ross.
Dunglass Castle (8)
This is the angle turret on the north-west corner of the tower-house's main block. This is what is referred to as chequer corbelling, the pattern made from a mixture of continuous corbels and individual corbels, although the term is more often used when there are multiple courses of individual corbels, offset from one another, to create the chequer effect.
Although indistinguishable now, the lowermost corbel course has a representation of the Colquhoun arms, with the initial C, and next to it, a man's face. They were still visible in the late 19th century and were drawn by MacGibbon and Ross.