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 field boundary marks a working landscape where preservation depended on patience and patience depended on stone. People may have carried butter, meat or beer through these policies, trusting the ground to remember what the air forgot.

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