What is recorded here
Hatton Castle, Garden Walls in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, holds a hidden bee bole and beehive beside its garden boundary. The walls may have marked a busy household where honey and human life became entangled. They still stand as a quiet reminder that even castle gardens can belong to smaller, stingier neighbours.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hatton Castle, Garden Walls as Bee Bole (period Unassigned), Beehive (period Unassigned), Garden (period Unassigned), Wall (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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