Castle Douglas
Castle Douglas is a community in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It depends on the lieutenancy location of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, between the towns of Dalbeattie and Gatehouse of Fleet. It is in the clerical parish of Kelton. Castle Douglas is built next to Carlingwark Loch in which traces of prehistoric crannogs can be found, proof of early inhabitation of the area. A huge bronze cauldron including concerning 100 steel things was found in Carlingwark Loch near Fir Island regarding 1866. The hoard of devices of iron and bronze is possibly Romano-Belgic of the late first or early 2nd centuries AD and is most likely to have been a votive candles offering. It is currently in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. To the North of the town Glenlochar is the site of two successive Roman fts, the initial being erected during the intrusion of Agricola and also the second throughout the Antonine duration. They appear to have been for cavalry units as well as evidence has actually been found that a "vicus" grew up around them. They were abandoned entirely regarding 160.
