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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 671949
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/671949
NO69SW 14 60759 97312
Bridge of Potarch [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1981.
ARCHITECT: Thomas Telford, 1803-21.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NO 608 973 and name as Potarch Bridge). Built 1811-13 by engineer Thomas Telford. A handsome 3-span bridge with dressed-stone arch rings and piers, and coursed-rubble spandrels. There are triangular cutwaters extended up to form semihexagonal pedestrian refuges.
J R Hume 1977.
This bridge carries the A93 public road (formerly the Military Road LIN 516) across the River Dee which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Birse (to the S) and Kincardine O'Neil (to the N).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 August 1997.
