Tote (Skeabost)

Nearest town:
Uig (15km NNW)
OS reference:
NG41404905
OS sheet:
23
Latitude:
57° 27' 28.81 N
Longitude:
6° 18' 43.79 W
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Image of Tote (Skeabost) (Chambered Cairn) by GLADMAN

A private garden cuts across the cairn...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 16, 2018
Image of Tote (Skeabost) (Chambered Cairn) by GLADMAN

Not exactly the easiest of monuments to achieve a close up view of.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 16, 2018
Image of Tote (Skeabost) (Chambered Cairn) by GLADMAN

You know.... sometimes you just can’t see the chambered cairn for the gorse (centre)

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 16, 2018
Image of Tote (Skeabost) (Chambered Cairn) by LesHamilton

This is the view up Loch Snizort Beag, obtained from the highest point I was able to attain on the cairn.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
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LesHamilton Jan 17, 2016

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Tote (Skeabost)

LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jan 17, 2016

Visited: September 11, 2015

A metalled road, which starts just north of the junction of the A850 with the B8036 at NG 423485, heads roughly west towards St Columba’s Isle and Burial Ground. At a junction after about 300 metres, take the road to the right for a further 700 metres, till it ends as a whitewashed cottage. Tote Chamberd Cairn lies on the foreshore of Loch Snizort Beag, immediately (about 30 metres) west-northwest of this cottage.

Just before the end of the road, make for the shore and follow it past the cottage. The cairn is plain to see.

Canmore states that this very large oval cairn, which measures 3.2 metres in height and 31 × 24 metres on the ground, is composed of loose stones and, though robbed, remains in good condition.

Today, the cairn is largely overgrown by dense gorse, and it proved impossible to make out any structure or attain its summit.

Local legend (incorrectly) claims that this cairn covers the slain of a battle between the Macleods and the Macdonalds in AD 1539. However, this legend correctly refers to a large cairn of stones that used to stand about 300 metres to the southwest, on the other side of the River Snizort, but which was ‘carted away to make room for the plough’ during the 19th century (Name Book 1877)

You can read more at Canmore

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