Castle Douglas
Castle Douglas is a community in Dumfries as well as Galloway, Scotland. It depends on the lieutenancy location of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, in between the towns of Dalbeattie and Gatehouse of Fleet. It remains in the clerical church of Kelton. Castle Douglas is constructed next to Carlingwark Loch in which traces of ancient crannogs can be found, proof of very early inhabitation of the area. A big bronze cauldron containing regarding 100 steel items was discovered in Carlingwark Loch near Fir Island about 1866. The stockpile of tools of iron and also bronze is probably Romano-Belgic of the late initial or early 2nd centuries AD and also is likely to have 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 2 succeeding Roman fts, the initial being erected during the invasion of Agricola and also the 2nd during the Antonine period. They appear to have been for cavalry devices as well as proof has been discovered that a "vicus" matured around them. They were abandoned totally concerning 160.