This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 57.0607 / 57°3'38"N
Longitude: -2.4317 / 2°25'54"W
OS Eastings: 373913
OS Northings: 796708
OS Grid: NO739967
Mapcode National: GBR X6.T7SV
Mapcode Global: WH8PT.MS7L
Entry Name: Crathes Castle,timber hall 550m ESE of
Scheduled Date: 26 January 1978
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4110
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hall
Location: Crathie and Braemar
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Banchory and Mid Deeside
Traditional County: Kincardineshire
The monument is of national importance for its potential contribution to an understanding of prehistoric domestic life and farming activities. Timber buildings of the type represented on this site are rare in the archaeological record. Pit alignments are a more common occurrence, but provide information about past land ownership.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS record the monument as NO79NW 17.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments