Little Jerah Traditional Cache
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Jerah is a name from the Bible – he was the son of Joktan of Shem and the name means New Moon in Hebrew. It is not a common name for farms but perhaps there is a link to the early owners of this area of the Glen – the Cistercian monks from Culross. The cache is a small clip top container with room for several small objects.
What remains here are some of the walls from what was once a substantial farmstead. Some stones are visible in several roughly rectangular shapes representing the main buildings with other structures of earth banks possibly crude enclosures for animals or shelter for cultivation.
This was probably farmed by a family who subsisted on what they could grow rather than gaining income from sales much as the monks had done earlier. Oats & barley would have been the main crop with some vegetables – turnips, carrots, peas an then later on potatoes when they arrived from America. The hay & straw would provide winter feed & bedding for a small herd of cattle & sheep that provided milk & meat for the family. Chickens added to the variety of meat and also provided eggs.
All this would change with the great age of improvement and sheep rearing on a grand scale for wool & meat for sale became the big business venture of the c18th. We don’t know who lived at Little Jerah but when that change came it must have made as big an impact on them as the various technological revolutions have been for us.
This cache is one of a set of caches exploring the rich heritage of the Glen. Each cache can be visited independently but there are two good walks that take in parts of the set.
A high level walk of 13 km takes in the hills surrounding the glen and is a substantial venture requiring some good navigation on pathless hills above the 500m line. It covers 7 caches of the set.
The caches are:-
GC23M4D – Calcite Puzzle
GC23B65 – Well Sheltered and Watered
GC23KEM – Battlewatch
GC23MED – Making a Loss
GC23M50 – Hanging On
GC23M52 – James Wright of Loss
GC23M4R – Quarterside
Purists may want to add the cache on the summit of Dumyat - Lost Look GCVX01 - placed by Team Incredible to complete the high level traverse.
This cache is on the lower level walk of 9 km covering 5 caches which is on good tracks all the way but still climbs to a height of 300m in places. It consists of:-
GC23M4D – Calcite Puzzle
GC23M4M – Little Jerah
GC23M50 – Hanging On
GC23M52 – James Wright of Loss
GC23M4R – Quarterside
Park on the side streets of Menstrie then take a good track up the hill by a series of zig zags until it flattens out & follows the hillside round the Glen.
For the next cache continue along the track then go through two gates round a sheeppen and drop down the hillside to the ruin of Jerah.
Well done Craigleaquestors on First to Find - All the high level walk caches are now in place!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haqre cvyr bs fgbarf ng Rnfg pbeare bs ehvaf.
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