Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670508

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ80SE 43 89770 02609

Morrison's Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:10,560 map, 1967.

Morison's Bridge (disused) [NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, May 2006.

Aberdeen, Suspension Bridge over the River Dee.

1831: The Toll house and pylons on North side of suspension bridge.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NJ 897 027). St Devenick Bridge, Cults. Built 1836-7 by engineer John Smith. A very fine suspension bridge with iron-rod chains of typical Samuel Brown type, iron-rod suspenders and wooden deck and railings. The main span is 185ft (56.4m) long. The pylons are of cast iron, with Greek doric columns, on masonry piers. The S abutment has been washed away and the bridge is disused.

J R Hume 1977a.

(Suspension bridge of Samual Brown chain type: location cited as NJ 897 027). Built 1836-7 by John Smith, engineer. Cast-iron pylons on masonry piers, single iron link chain on each side, iron rod suspenders and wooden truss span. Span 185 ft (56.4m). Disused.

J R Hume 1977b.

This site has only been partially upgraded for SCRAN. For further information, please consult the Architecture Catalogues for City of Aberdeen District.

{Information from RCAHMS] March 1998.

This bridge formerly carried a footpath across the River Dee, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Peterculter (Aberdeenshire) and Banchory Devenick (Kincardineshire), to the N and S respectively.

The location assigned to this record indicates the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence (AIB) suggests that it extended from NJ c. 89767 02675 to NJ c. 89771 02560. The N part of the bridge is depicted as decked, with only two piers (or similar structures) surviving to the S.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 May 2006.