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View from SW showing chain link and part of suspension rod.
SC 494371
Description View from SW showing chain link and part of suspension rod.
Date 8/8/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 494371
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Suspension bridge, Kalemouth, Roxburghshire This is one of the earliest surviving suspension bridges in Scotland, and was designed by Captain Samuel Brown. It has paired round-section suspension chain links and a wooden deck, both early features. It spans the river Teviot. This view shows a detail of the suspension chains, with the long links joined by short oval links incorporating a suspension point for one of the rods which support the deck. This bridge was reconditioned in the early 1990s without alteration to its character. It is in more original condition than Brown's other Border bridge, the Union Bridge at Hutton, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/191/7
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