Calvine, Calvine Camp, Camp No.66
Prisoner Of War Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Calvine, Calvine Camp, Camp No.66
Classification Prisoner Of War Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Pitagowan
Canmore ID 272696
Site Number NN86NW 43
NGR NN 81800 65704
NGR Description Centred NN 81800 65704
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/272696
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Blair Atholl
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN86NW 43 centred 81800 65704
A Prisoner-of-war camp noted in R J C Thomas, Project Report (Twentieth Century Military Recording Project, Prisoner-of-War Camps [1939-1948]), National Monuments Records Centre, English Heritage, July 2003 has been identified from vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 59, 3051-3052, flown 8 May 1946), in a field to the S of Pitagowan between the old A9 road and the River Garry.
The main section of the camp is set within a square high fenced enclosure which contains 38 mainly large huts, none of which are of the Nissen type. Immediately to the NW are the staff quarters which consisted of at least 40 huts, some of which had been removed by the date of the aerial photograph. Nearest the River Garry to the SE of the prison camp enclosure was the recreation area and sewage works.
It is not known what survives at this location, one unroofed building is shown in the area on the OS 1:2500 scale digital map.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), June 2005.
Watching Brief (19 August 2016 - 2 November 2016)
Alder Archaeology conducted a watching brief on engineering test pits being excavated between Pitagowan and Glen Garry during preliminary ground investigation as part of a programme to widen the A9 road. Areas of archaeological interest along this corridor comprised a Wade Road, and a WW2 POW camp. No features of archaeological interest were exposed in any of the pits monitored and no mitigation is recommended.
Information from Alder Archaeology Ltd.