Totscore: Historic Settlement and Roof Types

Totscore can be understood in its cultural and historical context through a range of settlement features: buildings, enclosures, tracks and a field system sit alongside details of cottage roofs. For your travel plans, the focus is on rural building and settlement history. If you are looking for hotels in Totscore, you can match this thematic focus to your travel plans.

Historic Map Records

The 1880 map record for the Totscore MHG25971 farmstead lists three buildings without roofs and an enclosure. The 1968 map record lists one building without a roof for the same farmstead. For the MHG25973 farmstead, the 1880 record includes one building without a roof, an attached enclosure and a field system; the 1968 record lists one building without a roof there.

The enclosure and field system broaden the picture beyond the buildings: an enclosure marks a boundary, while a field system divides up areas of land. The descriptions therefore cover both individual structures and spatial features.

Crofting Settlement and Sites

The descriptions updated in 2004 classify sites MHG33667 and MHG33668 as parts of the Totescore crofting settlement. Five linear structures are recorded for MHG33667. The 1880 map record for MHG33668 includes three roofed buildings, two smaller roofed outbuildings, two small enclosures and associated tracks.

The two sites have different descriptive emphases: for MHG33667, the focus is on the linear form of five structures. For MHG33668, by contrast, building types, enclosures and tracks are listed individually. This distinguishes the brief description of the form of one site from the detailed inventory of the other.

Cottage Roofs in Totscore

The cottage roofs add architectural detail to the map features. A 2015 building description notes that Cottage MHG61049 has a thatched roof, probably made of reeds or straw, with a continuous thatched ridge. The 2014 building description for MHG61050 describes the same combination: probably reeds or straw as the material, and a continuous thatched ridge.

In both cases, the material is described as probable; the continuous thatched ridge is the shared feature. The ridge is the upper edge of the roof. The details thus draw attention both to the roof form and to the uncertainty in identifying the material.

Nature and Geological Map References

A historic botanical record adds a natural history perspective to the built environment: the orchid species Dactylorhiza traunsteinerioides was recorded at Totscore, on Scuddaburgh Farm near Uig on the Isle of Skye. The record refers to this species and the stated location.

Geology is also represented by a map reference. Totscore is shown in the area covered by sheet 6 S.E. of the Northern Skye geological six-inch map series; the series was surveyed in 1934–36. This perspective adds a geological reference to the information about individual farmsteads and sites.

Discover more destinations: Broadford, Lochcarron, Contin, Evanton, Ballachulish, Muir Of Ord, Mallaig, Thurso

For the broader travel overview: Highland.