What is recorded here
Castle Douglas is a planned Scottish market town founded in 1792 beside Carlingwark Loch, where prehistoric crannogs still shadow the water and a jadeite axehead remains buried in the local earth. Its grid streets, cotton factories and Roman cavalry forts layer human ambition across centuries, while the town preserves objects taken from nearby lochs and lands. The place is both designed and discovered: a young town built on an old landscape that keeps giving back its lost things.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Douglas as Axehead (jadeite)(period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
Places near here
Castle DouglasAxehead(s) (stone)(period Unassigned) · 1 yd
Castle Douglas, King Street, Lochside ParkQuoits Ground (late 19th Century) - (mid 20th Century) · 335 yd
Horse HillCairn(s) (period Unassigned) · 571 yd
Ducking IslandWood · 581 yd
Carlingwark LochSmithy (period Unassigned)(possible) · 701 yd
War MemorialMemorial · 1143 yd
Bird HideViewpoint · 1.1 mi
Garden HillMountain / peak · 1.1 mi
Threave CastleArtillery Fortification (15th Century), Castle (medieval), Harbour (14th Century) · 1.3 mi
Ernespie HillMountain / peak · 1.4 mi
Torglass WoodWood · 2.7 mi
DrumskellyNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 2.8 mi