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the iron studded door at the entrance.

The Castle is now used as a barracks, but visitors may see the dungeons just as they were. Mary Queen of Scots was taken captive and imprisoned there the first time in England. A substantial oaken table, put together with pegs, is shown as the one she used while there.

The dungeons are the most terrible I have seen. In one of them, there is a stone in the wall that is always wet. It is said to be because the other stones are soft and absorb the moisture, while this particular one is hard. The tradition is that the hollow was made by the captives licking it to get moisture. The dungeons are ventilated by narrow slits going up through the wall, but a ray of daylight never gets in.

The walls of the castle are fifteen feet thick and in one there is a Roman well. There is another in the courtyard, the water of which is still used.

On the wall by the main entrance are the