Castle Douglas
Castle Douglas is a community in Dumfries and also Galloway, Scotland. It hinges on the lieutenancy area of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, between the communities of Dalbeattie as well as Gatehouse of Fleet. It remains in the ecclesiastical church of Kelton. Castle Douglas is built alongside Carlingwark Loch in which traces of primitive crannogs can be located, evidence of very early inhabitation of the location. A huge bronze cauldron having about 100 metal objects was discovered in Carlingwark Loch near Fir Island concerning 1866. The hoard of devices of iron as well as bronze is most likely Romano-Belgic of the late very first or very early second centuries AD and is likely to have actually been a votive offering. It is now in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. To the North of the town Glenlochar is the website of two succeeding Roman fts, the very first being erected throughout the invasion of Agricola and also the 2nd during the Antonine duration. They appear to have been for cavalry units as well as evidence has actually been discovered that a "vicus" matured around them. They were abandoned completely regarding 160.
