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Skail
Chambered Cairn

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.”

northern-times.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/2059/Exploring_north_Sutherland_s_archaeological_heritage.html