Archaeology Notes

Event ID 684110

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO15SE 45 17000 50214

(Location cited as NO 170 502). Haughs of Drimmie. Double cantilever bridge, probably c. 1830, engineer John Justice, Jnr. A handsome wrought-iron bridge with iron-framed timber deck supported by diagonal rods. Under the deck is a liight inverted bowed truss, built up of circular-section rods.

This bridge is intermediate in form between the Justice bridges at Kirkton of Glenisla, Angus (NO26SW 8) and Crathie, Aberdeenshire (N29SE 8).

J R Hume 1977a.

(Suspension bridge of John Justice type). Built c. 1830. Wrought-iron pylons, iron rod stay chains, deck frame and underbracing, and wooden carriageway. Private road bridge.

J R Hume 1977b.

This bridge carries Glenericht Lodge Drive across the River Ericht to the S of Glenericht House (NO15SE 98). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Blairgowrie and Rattray.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 August 2000.