Badentarbat
Horse Engine Platform (Post Medieval)
Site Name Badentarbat
Classification Horse Engine Platform (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 116631
Site Number NC01SW 24.06
NGR NC 01339 10093
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/116631
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochbroom
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (9 August 1994)
NC01SW 24.06 0133 1009
Against the SE wall of the outbuilding to the S of Badentarbat House there is a horse-engine platform measuring 6.5m in diameter and 0.8m in height. The winding mechanism is still in place in the centre of the flat grass-covered top, and the horizontal shaft can be seen in a narrow gap between the platform and the building. The building is now in use as a garage, but presumably it once served as a barn. Both the 1st and the 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map shows the building (roofed) with a square enclosure on its SE side, annotated 'Sheepfold' (Cromartyshire 1881, sheet iiia; Ross and Cromarty 1906, sheet iiia).
(ACHIL94 427)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 9 August 1994
