Indeed, I have probably assumed too much. It was a convenient way of explaining the disappearance of the nuisance line 3 upstream square wave.
The copper must be in ducts [?] somewhere between the Claymore restaurant and the Broadford exchange along the main road. Then further east there are plenty of FTTC cabs now in Sculamus and Breacais according to that codelook website [?] where there are a large number of houses stretching half a mile or so further east and in the direction of the Skye bridge.
On the high moor to Heasta there is still only the one bundle visible by the roadside, according to Janet. Near the main road, in the suburb of Harapul, where the Heasta road leaves the main road at the Claymore restaurant (and the local vet’s) there are about eight or nine houses right by the Heasta road, between the main road and a cattle grid where the road goes into to open pastures. All visible in Google Street View of course. I have no idea where exactly the copper is that services those houses and continues on towards Heasta. I suspect the copper is buried in a very shallow inadequate way on that stretch from the northern cattle grid where the houses peter out down southwards to the sharp little kink in the road where the bundle crosses the stream and starts to climb towards Heasta. There has been cable damage in the past in those fields, where animals are fed and vehicles pull off the road at the Harapul fank, where the ground is soft. It’s only at that bridge where you can start to see the copper, so in terms of topology, I’m wondering if the only significant node is that PCP discussed earlier, by the Claymore restaurant. And that spot, near the south roadside green cab, you’ll recall, is near where Janet saw workmen active around the time when things first went to hell last month. They were not BT, but builders with a mini digger, working on a driveway.