# 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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or mortise in the masonry as if it
had been used to be drawn backwards
and forwards similar to the Bar of
a gateway according to the method of
security in early ages. If this was
its use the gateway to which it belong'd
must have opened directly on the Harbour
and must have existed, when the Castle
was a much more simple structure
than at present. The magnitude of the
Beam evidently falsifies the notion
that it was the Bar of a wicket, and
what would have been the utility of
a wicket gate in that part of the Castle
as it now stands. The outer walls
which are of the same architecture
with the higher part of the main buildi[ng]
already noticed have no relation to the
gate spoken of and therefore must
have been reared at some subsequent perio[d]
when that gate had been shut up and the