What is recorded here

Crathes Castle Policies holds Post Medieval ice-houses, structures built between 1561 and 1899 to capture winter cold for summer use. The castle estate likely depended on this hidden machinery, pulling heat from human bodies and food across the seasons. People may have walked these grounds in darkness, carrying heavy blocks of ice toward kitchens and cellars. The policies remain a quiet engine of preservation, measuring life in temperature rather than treasure.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Crathes Castle Policies as Revetment (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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