Crathes Castle Policies
Cairn(S) (Post Medieval), Post Hole(S) (Neolithic)(Possible), Wall(S) (Period Unassigned), Sherd (Neolithic)
Site Name Crathes Castle Policies
Classification Cairn(S) (Post Medieval), Post Hole(S) (Neolithic)(Possible), Wall(S) (Period Unassigned), Sherd (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Crathes Castle Over-flow Car Park
Canmore ID 339709
Site Number NO79NW 104
NGR NO 73599 96798
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/339709
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Banchory-ternan
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
Watching Brief (March 2005)
NO 736 968 A watching brief was carried out in March 2005 during topsoil stripping in preparation for a new overflow car park as the site is within 200m of the Warren Field pit alignment and c400m from the Warren Field Neolithic hall. A small number of highly truncated negative features, possibly post-holes, were revealed near the top of a SE-facing slope. Six of these features contained flint or pottery of probable later prehistoric date.
Report to be lodged with Aberdeenshire SMR and NMRS.
Sponsor: NTS.
Information from NTS (SCS) March 2014
Field Visit (12 January 2015 - 30 January 2015)
NO 73599 96801 A walkover survey of the forested areas in the Crathes Castle Estate was undertaken, 12–30 January 2015, following a survey by AOC in 1997. Additional sections of dry stone walling were located in dense vegetation and six previously unrecorded cairns, probably of post-medieval date were recorded. The results of the devastating storm of 31 January – 1 February 1953 can be seen throughout the property; the storm flattened virtually the entire estate’s stock of standing timber.
Archive: National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE)
Funder: The National Trust for Scotland
Robert Lenfert – Cameron Archaeology
(Source: DES, Volume 16)
