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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675883

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675883

NN00NE 23 09816 09052

(Formerly scheduled as Aray Bridge screen wall). Descheduled.

Information from Historic Scotland, Certificate of Exclusion from Schedule dated 12 February 2001.

Architect:

John Adam, 1758 (First bridge)

Robert Mylne, 1771-1773.

NMRS:

Plans:

Original plans in possession of Duke of Argyll.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NN 098 091). Aray Bridge, built 1775, architect Robert Mylne. A beautiful two-span bridge, built entirely of dressed stone, with segmental arches and pointed cutwaters. There is a flood relief hole between the arches. The parapets have balustraded end and central parts.

J R Hume 1977.

This bridge carries the A83(T) public road over the River Aray, just NW of the mouth of the river and about 0.25km SE of Inveraray castle (NN00NE 15). It is depicted, but not noted, on the 1977 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 May 2006.

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