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Latitude: 56.3357 / 56°20'8"N
Longitude: -3.5038 / 3°30'13"W
OS Eastings: 307122
OS Northings: 716946
OS Grid: NO071169
Mapcode National: GBR 1W.4YL5
Mapcode Global: WH5PL.40RS
Entry Name: Jackschairs Wood,cairn 225m ENE of Netherholm
Scheduled Date: 8 February 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5579
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Forteviot
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Almond and Earn
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument is a well preserved prehistoric burial cairn which will cover at least one burial and may incorporate other burials within its mass. It occupies the summit of a hill and measures c. 14m in diameter and 1.5m high.
The area to be scheduled measures 40m in diameter, to include the mound and an area round it in which traces of activity associated with its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well preserved and undisturbed mound which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric burial practices. It is of particular importance because it survives as an unploughed site in an area where most sites of this period have been ploughed flat. It is also of importance because it will preserve below it traces of the contemporary ground surface, which has the potential to increase our knowledge of land use practices in prehistory.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NO01NE 7.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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