What is recorded here
Under the grass of Castledykes Park lies a truncated ditched mound, the buried skeleton of Dumfries Castle. On 10th February 1306, Robert the Bruce and James Douglas stood where the mound rose, raising Scotland's standard above the freshly seized English garrison while the River Nith and Criffle watched. The castle's exact rooms are lost to later landscaping, but the act remains sharp: a king claiming a kingdom on an open hill, his banner snapping in the crisp air before the world could stop him.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castledykes as Field System (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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