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Blackness Castle - ref BLC1
The
castle is long and narrow because of the shape of
the rock on which it is situated and it is
sometimes called ' the ship that never sailed ' .
It guards the bay at Blackness and is only a few
miles from Linlithgow
Palace
. The first castle was built in the middle of the
15th century by Sir George Crichton , Earl of
Caithness , a member of one of the most powerful
families in Scotland . King James II acquired
Blackness in 1453 when he annexed the lands of the
Crichtons . From then on the castle was mainly used
as a prison . In 1543 Cardinal Beaton was held here
for a month . Rebuilding started in the 1530s under
the direction of Sir James Hamilton of Finnart who
also worked at
Linlithgow Palace
and Stirling
Castle
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