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Pitcaple Castle Policies, Ice-house
Icehouse (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Beaker (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Pitcaple Castle Policies, Ice-house
Classification Icehouse (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Beaker (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Pitcaple Castle
Canmore ID 18808
Site Number NJ72NW 27
NGR NJ 7238 2604
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18808
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Chapel Of Garioch
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72NW 27 7238 2604.
A food vessel was found before 1875, about 350yds (320m) W of Pitcaple Castle, in digging the foundations of an ice-house (at NJ 7238 2604). The vessel is of unusual shape as the relative height to the breadth is greater than generally seen and its slight projecting lip is uncommon.
J G Callander 1925.
The ice-house, now destroyed, was situated on a slight natural knoll. The food vessel is now in Aberdeen Regional Museum.
A type B beaker at Pitcaple Castle Museum is labelled 'Found in Pitcaple Castle grounds when digging a pit for an ice-house' but there could be confusion with NJ72NW 30.
Visited by OS (RL) 26 February 1969.
The Food Vessel is a Tripartite Vase with a heavy square rim and all over cord decoration on the top two-thirds of the body. The ice-house is complete and has been restored with heavy concretion inside.
The reported discovery of a 'type B Beaker' appears to result from confusion with or misidentification of the tripartite Food Vessel.
NMRS, MS/712/69, visited 28 February 1978.
(Classification amended to: Food Vessel; Beaker; Ice-house; Rig). The site of this ice-house is marked by an overgrown hollow on a natural rise 320m W of Pitcaple Castle (NJ72NW 10). The hollow measures about 8m in diameter. Immediately to the N there is a small area of rig-and-furrow in which the rigs measure about 8m in breadth. The Beaker is still within the collection of artefacts inside the castle.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, SPH) 12 June 1996.
