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Easter Powside enclosures is a post-medieval monument comprising field boundaries and settlement remains located in Perthshire, Scotland. The site lies upon bedrock of the Arbuttnott-Garvock Group, a geological formation dating to the Pragian period, which consists primarily of sandstone interspersed with subordinate layers of conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone. This underlying geology would have influenced both the drainage characteristics and building stone available to those who worked and settled here in the centuries following the medieval period.
The enclosures represent the landscape reorganisation that occurred across much of lowland and mid-Perthshire during the post-medieval era, as agricultural practices evolved and land was subdivided into more defined units. The surviving earthwork boundaries and associated features provide material evidence of how rural communities structured their fields and properties during this transformative period in Scottish land use.
The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland and is recorded under the national monument register as SM3634. This statutory designation recognises the archaeological and historical significance of the site as a tangible record of post-medieval rural settlement and land management practices in Perthshire.
Easter Powside,enclosures is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3634. View the official record →
Easter Powside enclosures is a post-medieval monument comprising field boundaries and settlement remains located in Perthshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3634.
Easter Powside,enclosures dates from the post-medieval period, and is classified as a enclosures. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Easter Powside,enclosures is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM3634.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Home Farm, moated site, roundhouse, enclosure and pits 200m SE of Green of Invermay (8.3 km), Bogtonlea, palisaded settlement, roundhouse, pit circle and pits 280m SSW of Green of Invermay (8.5 km), Inverdunning House, henge 140m S of (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Easter Powside,enclosures's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Easter Powside,enclosures stands on Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, bedrock that formed in the Pragian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone.