Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667577

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ45SW 7 42762 50796

Auld Brig [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, March 2010.

For (replacement) Union Bridge (NJ 4281 4078), see NJ45SW 21.

(NJ 4276 5080) Linking Keith with Fife-Keith is the 'Auld Brig' built in 1609 AD by T Murray and his wife Janet Lindsay.

Keith Official Guide 1960.

The bridge, 2.8m wide and having a single arch is in good order; it is a pedestrian bridge only. A stone at the apex of the arch, on the upstream side, reads: 'Erected 1609, repaired 1822'.

Visited by OS (EGC) 6 December 1962.

No change

Visited by OS (RL) 4 July 1967.

(Location cited as NJ 427 507). Old Bridge of Keith. Probably 17th century. A small hump-backed rubble bridge, with a single segmental arch.

J R Hume 1977.

This bridge is also known as the Auld Brig and Bridge of Grange. It now carries a footpath from Regent Street to the cemetery over the River Isla.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 April 1996.