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466 PROCEEDINGS
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468 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, JUNE 9, 1884. 1580. I am inclined to think the timber "building dates from about that period. I have prepared measured drawings of the building, and Drummond's plate
Fig. 4. Section through East Part of Old Timber House, Lawmuarket, Edinburgh.
Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. VoLOTH, Plate
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472 VBOCEED1NGS OF THE SOCIETY, JUNE 9, 1884. jambs
OLD TIMBER BUILDING
474 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, JUNE 9, 1884. as an expedient for securing a good support on which, to hinge. To have removed the stone walls, and to have inserted oak heams of the scantling
OLD TIMBER BUILDING IN THE LAWNMARKBT. 475 pa I J - 3 J -\J J-
476 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, JUNE 9, 1884. (Plate II.) Unfortunately in many places the decoration was quite gone, as the blanks on the drawing will show, but what remains gives an excellent idea of the character of the work. The beams which carried the flooring planks, whose reverse side formed the ceiling below, were spaced somewhat irregularly, and the spaces between them were treated as long panels with paintings
Proc. Son. Antitj. Scot. Vol..XVIII, Plate II. PANTED CI'IUNG- OF ROOM UN SECOND FLOOR OF TIM3LK 1iOU'3~c, Til LAV/NMARKFT