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Jackschairs Wood
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Jackschairs Wood
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Netherholm
Canmore ID 26547
Site Number NO01NE 17
NGR NO 0714 1695
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/26547
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Forteviot
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO01NE 17 0714 1695.
(NO 0714 1695.) A cairn 45ft diameter and 5 1/2ft high occupies the position of the triangulation point in Jackschairs Wood (information in telephone call from RCAHMS to OS, 14 September 1965) marked on the county series 6" maps, 200 yards east of Jackschairs.
J Skene 1857; RCAHMS 1957.
A turf-covered cairn as described above. Good condition.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J T T) 2 November 1965.
The remains of this grass-grown cairn are situated at the wooded W end of a ridge, some 200m NE of Netherholm steading (NO01NE 88). The cairn measures about 14m in diameter by about 1.2m in height and is surmounted by an Ordnance Survey triangulation cairn which measures about 2.5m in diameter and 0.3m in height.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 22 November 1995.
Field Visit (10 May 1956)
Cairn, Jackschairs Wood.
The remains of a round cairn, measuring about 45 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. 6 ins. in height, can be seen in Jackschairs Wood, 200 yds. E. of Jackschairs. The exact position of the cairn is marked on the O. S. map by the minor triangulation-point 339.
NO 070 170
Visited by RCAHMS (KAS) 10 May 1956
Reference (1963)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1956-8)’, published in Vol. 1 of the RCAHMS Inventory of Stirlingshire. The 26 monuments were listed by their name, classification, parish and county, and the list also includes an indication of whether they had been planned (P), whether they were visible only as a cropmark (C), and whether they were worthy of preservation (*).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 30 October 2012.
