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Easter Powside
Temporary Camp (Roman)
Site Name Easter Powside
Classification Temporary Camp (Roman)
Canmore ID 26904
Site Number NO02SE 52
NGR NO 0563 2457
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/26904
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Tibbermore
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO02SE 52 0563 2457.
Aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1979, 1986 & 1993) has recorded the cropmarks of a Roman temporary camp approximately 140m to the SE of Easter Powside farm. The cropmarks are of rhomboidal form, and have approximate dimensions of 50m E to W and 90m N to S.
Information from RCAHMS (GJW) 15 January 1998
NO 056 245 A small (c 1.1 acre; 0.45ha) rectangular enclosure (NMRS NO02SE 52) found from the air some years ago beside the East Pow on the farm of Marlefield has generally been thought to be a small Roman camp. This would seem to be confirmed by a trial section of its defences (at the SE corner) which revealed a V-sectioned ditch, 1.9m wide and 0.84m deep, with bottom slot. No dating evidence was recovered.
Sponsor: Roman Gask Project.
D J Woolliscroft 1998
Publication Account (17 November 2011)
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
