Casandamff
Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Casandamff
Classification Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Polintark
Canmore ID 13890
Site Number NH68SE 13
NGR NH 68282 82602
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13890
- Council Highland
- Parish Edderton
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH68SE 13 6829 8260.
At NH 6829 8260 is a well-preserved unusually elongated oval stone-walled hut similar to one not far away at Ranich (NH78SW 12) and those at Drumnadrochit (NH53SW 7). It measures 13.0m E-W by 8.0m between centres of a wall spread to 2.8m in the W increasing to 3.5m at the entrance in the E. The entrance is edged with boulders and has a wide splay being 1.0m wide internally and 2.8m wide externally. It is partially blocked inside by a fallen stone.
Surveyed at 1/10560.
Visited by OS (J B) 17 June 1975.
Field Visit (June 1978)
Polintark NH 682 826 NH68SE 13
What may be a deserted cottage stands in improved ground 1.1km ENE of Polintark and measures 13m from E to W by 5m transversely between wall-centres.
RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1978
