Tour Scotland video of the spiral staircase on ancestry visit to Elcho Castle just South of Perth, Scotland. The single entrance doorway at the base of the south-west tower opened onto the spacious spiral main stair within the tower, which rose no higher than the principal rooms on the first floor. Members of the family and their visitors would proceed straight up the stair to that level, because the whole of the ground floor was occupied by the kitchen and associated larders and storerooms. The spiral usually was built clockwise to deter the sword hand of an attacker so they had to hold it in the left hand. This gave you as the defender the advantage.
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