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Jackschairs Wood
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3009
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3009 (3009)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Forgandenny
- National Grid reference
- NO 0720 1680
- Latitude
- 56.33450
- Longitude
- -3.50257
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); Other (1832); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1900); Other (1956); Other (1965); Other (1992); Other (1995); Excavation (2007); Earthwork Survey (2007); Earthwork Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1597
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1874
- National record
- record NO 01 NE 20; monument 26551
- Wikidata
- Q31097485
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Huggett, J (2007) 'The Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot Project (SERF) - Jackschairs Hillfort, Perth and Kinross (Forgandenny parish), survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New ser, 8 (2007), 155
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Poller, T and Goldberg, M (2007) Jackschairs Wood Hillfort Excavations 2007; Data Structure Report (Glasgow University, SERF)
- Poller, Goldberg and Driscoll, T, M and S (2007) 'The Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot Project (SERF) - Jackschairs Hillfort, Perth and Kinross (Forgandenny parish), excavation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 8, 155-6
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- Skene, W F (1857) 'Observations on Forteviot, the site of the ancient Capital of Scotland', Archaeologia Scotica 4 (1857), 271-9