Castle Douglas
Castle Douglas is a town in Dumfries and also Galloway, Scotland. It depends on the lieutenancy location of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, in between the communities of Dalbeattie and also Lodge of Fleet. It is in the clerical parish of Kelton. Castle Douglas is constructed beside Carlingwark Loch in which traces of prehistoric crannogs can be located, evidence of very early inhabitation of the location. A huge bronze cauldron consisting of concerning 100 steel items was discovered in Carlingwark Loch near Fir Island about 1866. The heap of devices of iron and also bronze is possibly Romano-Belgic of the late first or very early 2nd centuries AD as well as is likely to have been a votive offering. It is currently in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. To the North of the community Glenlochar is the website of 2 succeeding Roman forts, the very first being erected throughout the invasion of Agricola and also the second during the Antonine duration. They show up to have been for cavalry units as well as evidence has actually been found that a "vicus" grew up around them. They were deserted completely about 160.
