Castle Douglas
Castle Douglas is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It hinges on the lieutenancy location of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, in between the towns of Dalbeattie and also Gatehouse of Fleet. It is in the clerical church of Kelton. Castle Douglas is developed next to Carlingwark Loch in which traces of ancient crannogs can be located, evidence of very early inhabitation of the area. A large bronze cauldron consisting of regarding 100 metal objects was found in Carlingwark Loch near Fir Island concerning 1866. The stockpile of tools of iron and also bronze is probably Romano-Belgic of the late initial or very 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 website of 2 successive Roman fts, the initial being erected throughout the intrusion of Agricola and also the second throughout the Antonine period. They appear to have been for cavalry systems and evidence has been located that a "vicus" grew up around them. They were deserted completely about 160.
