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Blackness was once an important port north of Edinburgh. When the Scots asked the English King for permission to build a castle to defend it, it was suggested that they build a ship instead. The Scots then put themselves to building a castle in the shape of a ship, which perhaps says something about the Scots mentality. The building looks like a mediaeval warship, and has been variously castle and prison since around the fifteenth century. |
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