# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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fortification had assumed its present
out Line. Hence it must be concluded
that Castle Rushen was built at two
seperate periods and that this Bar
belonged to the gate of the primitive
Fabric. This is rendered still more
probable when the Evidence of the
Architect who directed the Late Repairs
is taken into consideration who gives
it as his firm opinion that the masonry
of the Lower portion of wall, was found
on cutting through it to be quite different
from the higher part, as above mentioned
The primitive Castle appears to have
been a Square Structure whose four
Sides were defended by four Towers
at the present Day three of these towers
are solid to the height of the old wall
and one of them was found to contain
mould mixed with decaying bones
indicating that it had been used for