S5598 - Craiglash

NO616983, LR37 & LR45.

 

HISTORY

Pillar completed 18th September 1949 costing £14.3s.0d. Computed as tertiary triangulation station NO89/T22, and levelled to second class precision during 1950. This pillar station was last maintained by the Ordnance Survey in August 1973.

 

SITE VISIT

Overall approach from NNE. Parked in makeshift layby to north side of unclassified road, 100m west of track at NO617989. Up mapped track to highpont then via steep unmapped track and easy woodland grass to summit. Ord More. Woodland setting with overhead tree coverage. Pillar in good condition with tree one foot in front of flush bracket. Spider retains OS centre cap with shallow engraved letters. Flush bracket faces SSW, compass measurement 193°. Vented through right (SE) sight hole. The view was lost to the surrounding woods many years ago.

 

Photographed: 23rd June 2018, GRP.

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Map: Trig Pillars on OS Landranger 37

 

Map: Trig Pillars on OS Landranger 45

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Neighbouring Triangulation Pillars

 

S5821 - Craigmore : 1.77 miles to the southwest.

 

S5816 - Toms Cairn : 2.50 miles to the south.

 

S5600 - Tillylair : 3.01 miles to the southeast.

 

S5603 - Stot Hill : 3.35 miles to the northwest.

 

S5466 - Brathens : 3.81 miles to the east.

 

S5803 - Balfour : 3.88 miles to the southwest.

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Nearest Non Pillar Flush Bracket (Levelling Line)

 

G915 - Tillydrine : 0.91 miles to the west.

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