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Skail

Chambered Cairn

Folklore

From the Northern Times, Published: 25 May, 2007 (report on annual summer school of the Council for Scottish Archaeology at Bettyhill)

"at Skail, discussion centred on the denuded neolithic chamber known locally as "the Temple", associated in folklore and possibly in reality, with Sagart Ruadh, the "Red Priest", a Columban cleric said to have died there at the hands of a Norse warrior."

http://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/2059/Exploring_north_Sutherland_s_archaeological_heritage.html
summerlands Posted by summerlands
6th February 2011ce

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