Tantallon Castle is a formidable mid-14th-century fortress standing on a sheer cliff edge on the East Lothian coast near North Berwick, looking out across the Firth of Forth to the Bass Rock. The last of Scotland's great curtain-wall castles, it was for centuries the coastal stronghold of the powerful Douglas Earls of Angus, withstanding repeated sieges before finally falling to Cromwell's artillery in 1651. Now cared for by Historic Environment Scotland, its massive red-stone rampart remains one of the most dramatic castle ruins in the country.
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