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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 677895
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/677895
NN74NE 14.02 78243 46734
NN 7825 4671. Chinese Bridge, Taymouth Castle. This is a three-arched bridge, built in the early 19th century. The cutwaters are perhaps relics of a previous wooden bridge, shown at this site in estate maps of 1754 and 1786.
HBD List.
Visited and photographed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, 7 June 1976.
NMRS, MS/749/95.
(Location cited as NN 782 468). Chinese Bridge, Taymouth Castle. Built with wooden spans before 1754 and rebuilt early 19th century. A three-span, cast-iron arch bridge with two-rib Tudor arches, Gothic cast-iron railings and wooden deck. The piers and abutments are of rubble construction. Disused and decaying.
J R Hume 1977.
Bridge falling into disrepair and not in use at present.
Visited by OS (BS) 29 November 1978.
This bridge carries an estate footpath over the River Tay to the N of Taymouth Castle (NN74NE 14.00). It is depicted, but not noted, on the 1982 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.
The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence (current GIS AIB) indicates that it extends from NN 78224 46752 to NN 78261 46716.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 March 1998.
