Publication Account

Date 17 November 2011

Event ID 922061

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/922061

The camp at Easter Powside was first discovered from the air by RCAHMS in 1979. It lies on slightly undulating ground north of Strathearn and the Gask Ridge, and just to the south of the East Pow Burn. The dismantled railway line from Perth to Crieff bisects the camp from east to west. Parts of all four sides of the camp have been recorded through cropmarks, and it is rhomboidal in form with a flattened northern side. It measures around 75m from north to south by 62m transversely, enclosing about 0.45ha (just over 1 acre). There is a break in the north side, outside which is an apparent stretch of ditch offset at a slight angle, which may be the remains of a titulus. The corresponding south side continues unbroken, and the railway line has destroyed part of the other two sides. Woolliscroft placed a trench through the south-east corner in 1998, revealing a V-shaped ditch, 1.9m wide and 0.85m deep, which appears to have silted up naturally (Woolliscroft et al 2002: 29–31).

R H Jones