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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Snizort
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Skye And Lochalsh
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes ( - 1961)

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.

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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).

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