What is recorded here

Castle Douglas is a planned market town in Dumfries and Galloway, founded in 1792 by William Douglas on the shores of Carlingwark Loch. Its grid streets echo Edinburgh’s New Town, while Cotton Street still remembers the hand-woven cotton factories created there. The town sits beside water where prehistoric crannogs and a Romano-Belgic bronze cauldron suggest that people have long shaped, used and surrendered things in this place.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Douglas as Axehead(s) (stone)(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.

Castle Douglas, located in Dumfries and Galloway, was built by the Douglas family in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is important as a historic stronghold associated with one of Scotland's most influential noble families and as a strategic site in the region's medieval history.

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