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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 670731
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/670731
NJ83NE 46 85713 37572
Methlick Bridge [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1983.
See also NJ83NE 143.
(Location cited as NJ 857 375). Bridge, Methlick. Built 1844 by engineers J & W Smith. A 3-span bridge with segmental dressed-stone arches flanking a 40ft (12.2m) cast-iron segmental arch. The 4 cast-iron ribs are each in two sections and have open spandrels. There are pleasing diagonal-pattern cast-iron railings over the central span.
J R Hume 1977.
Following proposals for the widening and strengthening of Methlick Bridge, during April 1999, a photographic survey was undertaken by RCAHMS. At the time of the RCAHMS photographic survey, April/May 1999, it was found that Methlick Bridge had been by-passed by a temporary bridge. The Council's engineers were about to begin the strengthening and widening process.
Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), April 1999.
This bridge apparently carries the former line of the Methlick-New Deer public road (B 9170) across the River Ythan to the N of the village of Methlick (NJ83NE 114). The current edition of the OS (GIS) AIB depicts what is apparently a successor or replacement bridge (NJ83NE 143) immediately to the NW; this may only be temporary structure.
The location assigned to this record defines the apparent midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NJ c. 85721 37583 to NJ c. 85704 37560.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 June 2006.
