Castle Douglas
Castle Douglas is a community in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It depends on the lieutenancy area of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, in between the communities of Dalbeattie as well as Gatehouse of Fleet. It is in the ecclesiastical parish of Kelton. Castle Douglas is constructed next to Carlingwark Loch in which traces of prehistoric crannogs can be discovered, proof of very early inhabitation of the location. A big bronze cauldron including about 100 steel objects was located in Carlingwark Loch near Fir Island about 1866. The heap of tools of iron as well as bronze is possibly Romano-Belgic of the late initial or early 2nd centuries AD and is likely to have actually been a votive candles offering. It is now in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. To the North of the community Glenlochar is the site of two succeeding Roman forts, the first being erected during the invasion of Agricola and also the second throughout the Antonine period. They appear to have been for cavalry units and proof has actually been found that a "vicus" matured around them. They were deserted entirely about 160.