Blackness Castle at sunset

Maker
Tom Astbury
Production date
10 Aug 1979
 Description
View from the east of the silhouette of the castle showing its ship-like profile caused by the South Tower (stern), the Central Tower (mainmast) and North Tower (stem).
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Department
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Maker
Production date
10 Aug 1979
Subject place
Blackness Castle/Blackness/Bo'ness area
River Forth/Blackness/Bo'ness area
Subject notes
The castle was built in the 15th century by Sir George Crichton, Admiral of Scotland, who allegedly promised to build an unsinkable ship to protect the Forth from English attacks by sea. It was also a state prison, holding Cardinal Beaton in 1543. After the Anglo-Scottish Union in 1707 the castle continued as a garrison and later held prisoners from the Napoleonic War. In 1870 it became a central ammunition store. It is built on an igneous sill of black teschenite.
Accession number
P07031

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