Archaeology Notes

Event ID 691922

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO79NE 41.00 79653 98179

Park Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1988.

NO79NE 41.01 NO 79542 98255 Toll House

(Location cited as NO 797 982). Built 1854, engineer John Willett, cast by James Abernethy & Co., Aberdeen. A 2-span bridge with cast-iron arches, each of two ribs, on masonry piers, supprting a wooden deck. The spandrels are arcaded.

J R Hume 1977.

This bridge carries an unclassified public road across the River Dee, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Drumoak (to the NW) and Durris (to the SE).

The location assigned to this record defines the apparent midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NO c. 79614 98204 to NO c. 79684 98157.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 May 2006.