What is recorded here
Crathes Castle Policies holds Post Medieval ice-houses built between 1561 and 1899, revealing a estate that stored summer harvests through winter darkness. The mound stands in Aberdeenshire near Banchory Ternan, waiting for people to remember how much work goes into keeping food alive when frost takes everything else.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Crathes Castle Policies as Mound (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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Places near here
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Crathes Castle, DoocotDovecot (period Unassigned) · 275 yd
Ley WoodForest · 361 yd
Crathes Castle, Walled GardenWalled Garden (period Unassigned) · 375 yd
Crathes CastleNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 388 yd
Warren FieldPit(s) (late Mesolithic) - (early Neolithic), Pit Alignment (prehistoric) · 555 yd
Balbridie CottageRing Ditch (later Prehistoric)(possible) · 778 yd
Hill of BanchoryNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1534 yd
Tilquhillie CastleTower House (medieval) · 1.6 mi
Coy WoodForest · 1.7 mi
Falls of FeughWaterfall · 2.1 mi
RhindbuckieMountain / peak · 2.3 mi