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PICTURE GALLERY
Blackness Castle Pictures

Built in the 1440s, and massively strengthened in the 16th century as an artillery fortress, Blackness became an ammunition depot in the 1870s. Sitting on the River Forth and protecting the one time seaport of Linlithgow, near Edinburgh, the castle, whilst small, is an impressive sight.

This is a picture of the main entrance wall. The castle itself is designed to look like a ship (which you can't really tell from this photograph) and is strangely "TARDIS" like in that it is far bigger behidn the walls than it at first looks

blackness castle pictures photographs