Loch Slapin, Skye
Deer Dyke(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loch Slapin, Skye
Classification Deer Dyke(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 11456
Site Number NG52SE 9
NGR NG 56 20
NGR Description Centred NG 56 20
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG52SE 9 centred 56 20.
"Leave Coirt-chattachan (the old mansion house of the MacKinnons NG62SW 12) wind along the bottoms of the steep hills. Pass by the end of Loch Slappan to the south. See a stone dike or fence called Paraicnam fiadh, or the inclosure of the deer, which seems once to have been continued up a neighbouring hill. In one angle is a hollow ...a pit fall (formerly) covered with boughs for the destruction of the animals chased into it." T Pennant 1772.
Local enquiries on this site proved negative.
Visited by OS (C F W) 20 June 1961.
