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Tot Nan Druidhean, Skye
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Tot Nan Druidhean, Skye
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Upper Tote; Invertote
Canmore ID 11520
Site Number NG55NW 5
NGR NG 51860 58972
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11520
- Council Highland
- Parish Snizort
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
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.
Field Visit (31 August 1915)
Cairn, Tot nan Druidhean.
Some 40 yards east of the road, about 1 mile south of Invertote, on a slight prominence about 400 feet above sea-level, is a grass-covered, circular mound of stone and earth some 36 feet in diameter and 9 feet in height which is probably a burial cairn. The summit is slightly hollow. Immediately to the east the ground falls away about 20 feet in a steep escarpment.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 31 August 1915.
OS map: Skye xii (unnoted).
