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Skye, Totaig Burn
Souterrain (Prehistoric)
Site Name Skye, Totaig Burn
Classification Souterrain (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 10927
Site Number NG25SW 3
NGR NG 2027 5007
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10927
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG25SW 3 2027 5007.
(NG 202 500) The site of an earth-house lies behind a stable 20 yards E of the small Totaig Burn about 400 yards NNE of Colbost School. No traces of the building are visible, but a deep hollow is pointed out as the site of the inner chamber of the earth-house, and the passage is said to have led out to the steep right bank of the burn.
RCAHMS 1928.
The site of the inner chamber of this earth-house is situated at NG 2027 5007 in a natural hillock. 30m S of a ruined farmhouse.
Visited by OS (C F W) 7 May 1961.
Field Visit (7 May 1915)
Earth - house, Totaig, Colbost.
The site of this earth-house lies behind a stable about 20 yards east of the small Totaig Burn, about 400 yards north-north-east of Colbost School. No traces of the building are visible, but a deep hollow is pointed out as the site of the inner chamber of the earth-house, and the passage is said to have led out to the steep right bank of the burn.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 7 May 1915.
OS map: Skye xxi (unnoted).
