Archaeology Notes

Event ID 679764

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT85NE 36 85183 56236

For (successor) David Hume Bridge (to S, at NT 85173 56195), see NT85NE 113.

(Location cited as NT 852 562). Chirnside Bridge, mid 18th century. A three-span rubble bridge with the two main spans segmental-arched. A smaller flood- and access-arch is semicircular. There are triangular cutwaters carried up to form pedestrian refuges. There is a dentilated cornices. Now bypassed.

J R Hume 1976.

This bridge carries the former line of the A6105 public road over the Whiteadder Water to the W of Chirnside village. The replacement (and present) bridge is situated immediately to the S, and the river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Chirnside (to the E) and Edrom (to the W).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 November 2001.