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Farmer fined for digging up ancient 'burial cairn'

A farmer has been fined £18,000 for destroying a Neolithic site on Skye.

Duncan MacInnes used the earth from Upper Tote Cairn to help with a shed-building project elsewhere on his land.

Full report can be read here.

Tot Nan Druidhean

Visited: August 22, 2016

Located just 300 metres south of the entrance to Upper Tote on the A855, Tot nan Druidhean is unmistakable as a prominent, very large cairn 40 metres east of the road. There is ample space to park a vehicle opposite Upper Tote.

The cairn is a prominent grass-covered cone situated on a mound and rising high above the moor. Access is through a gate, whence a metalled track heads south a short distance from the cairn. What appear to be two 2-metre tall ramparts circle round and abut the cairn like a giant pair of pincers.

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Tot Nan Druidhean
Cairn(s)

‘Drive by’ 29.7.13

All that can be seen is a low grass covered mound, the other side of a wire fence.
The Cairn is now a lot lower than it was in 1928 judging by the following report.

Canmore states:
‘Some 40 yards east of the road, about 1 mile south of Invertote, on a slight prominence, is a grass-covered circular mound of stone and earth. 36 ft in diameter and 9ft in height. The summit is slightly hollow’ 1928.

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