Castle Douglas
Castle Douglas is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It depends on the lieutenancy area of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, between the towns of Dalbeattie and Gatehouse of Fleet. It remains in the ecclesiastical church of Kelton. Castle Douglas is built beside Carlingwark Loch in which traces of ancient crannogs can be found, proof of early inhabitation of the area. A huge bronze cauldron consisting of about 100 steel things was found in Carlingwark Loch near Fir Island regarding 1866. The hoard of tools of iron and bronze is most likely Romano-Belgic of the late first or early 2nd centuries AD and is most likely to have been a votive candles offering. It is now in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. To the North of the town Glenlochar is the site of two successive Roman forts, the first being erected throughout the invasion of Agricola as well as the second throughout the Antonine duration. They show up to have actually been for cavalry units and also evidence has actually been located that a "vicus" grew up around them. They were abandoned totally regarding 160.
