View from S showing ashlar pylons on W side.
SC 494375
Description View from S showing ashlar pylons on W side.
Date 8/8/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 494375
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 the east pylons and abutment of the bridge, illustrating their refined construction. The design of the wooden deck resembles that of Brown's first Borders bridge, at Dryburgh Abbey. 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 H76/191/12
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