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Fast Castle
Fast Castle is the ruined remains of a coastal fortress in Berwickshire, south-east Scotland, in the Scottish Borders. It lies north west of the village of Coldingham, and just outside of the St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve, run by the National Trust for Scotland. The site is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fast Castle, 950m NNE of Dowlaw )〕
==The castle==
Fast Castle, in its heyday, comprised a courtyard and keep, built on a narrow sloping plateau, , on an eponymous promontory overlooking the North Sea.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=CANMORE )〕 Cliffs up to high on either side rendered the castle relatively impregnable.〔 The plateau was surrounded by a curtain wall with towers, with the keep at the northern extremity of the promontory. The castle could only be reached by a drawbridge over a narrow ravine, protected by a barbican. Little remains today of the keep or the courtyard walls except foundations, and a section of the north-east wall.〔 The layout of the castle is very similar to that of Dunnottar Castle in Aberdeenshire, though Fast Castle is on a smaller scale. Access to the sea was via a pulley system with basket. There is a cave at the foot of the cliffs, which, it has been suggested, could once have acted as an access to the interior of the castle by its inhabitants.
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