What is recorded here

Crathes Castle Policies holds Post Medieval ice-houses beside a possible ha ha, marking the estate where human ingenuity bent nature to its will. The boundary may have hidden the castle from view while the ice-houses preserved life through winter, turning cold itself into a tool for survival. Together they reveal a place where observation, memory and adaptation still shape the land.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Crathes Castle Policies as Field Boundary (period Unassigned), Ha Ha (post Medieval)(possible). 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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