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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1961
Event ID 658265
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/658265
NG55NW 5 5186 5898
See also NG56SW 8.
(NG 5186 5898) Cairn, Tot nan Druidhean. Some 40 yards E of the road, about 1 mile S of Invertote, on a slight prominence about 400ft OD., is a grass-covered, circular mound of stone and earth some 36ft in diameter and 9ft in height, which is probably a burial cairn. The summit is slightly hollow. Immediately to the E, the ground falls away about 20ft in a steep escarpment.
(RCAHMS 1928).
Cairn, as described above. The base has been exposed on the west side by quarrying, revealing a construction of boulders, small stone and soil.
Visited by OS (A S P) 27 April 1961.
