Note
Date 1982
Event ID 1145421
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Balmuildy Bridge NS c. 58 71 NS57SE 14
The exact position of the bridge that may be presumed to have carried the Military Way across the River Kelvin is not known. Timbers and blocks of masonry that were dredged from the river bed in 1942, about 90m NNW of Balmuildy fort (NS57SE 12), were originally thought to be of Roman origin, but dendrochronological analysis of one of the timbers showed that it was felled no earlier than AD 1360; the date of the dressed stones must thus be called in question, but it is conceivable that the medieval bridge stood on approximately the same site as a Roman predecessor.
RCAHMS 1982
(RCAHMS 1978, pp. 114-19, No. 248; DES, 1979, 40)
