Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695367

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR88NE 24.01 8561 8796 [Formerly entered as LIN 541]

Oakfield Bridge (Swing) [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1981.

For list of related sites, see NR88NE 24.00 Crinan Canal.

For Oakfield Bridge House (associated bridge keeper's cottage, adjacent to SE), see NR88NE 79.

Bridge removed from list of scheduled monuments, former number 4257.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 3 September 1996.

The oldest surviving structure on the canal at the date of survey was this swing-bridge at Oakfield, which according to the maker's plate was built by P and W MacLellan at Clutha Iron Works, Glasgow, in 1871.

RCAHMS 1992.

This bridge is marked as Oakfield Bridge on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1873, sheet clx) and on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1900, sheet clxSE). It is marked as Oakfield Bridge (Swing) on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981) and on the OS 1:10000 raster map (ND).

Information from RCAHMS (MD), 28 June 2001.

This bridge carries a private road over the Crinan Canal (NR88NE 24.00/LIN 541) on the W side of Lochgilphead (NR88NE 81) and just SW of the junction of the A83 (T) and A817 (T) public roads.

The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the bridge's short span.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 June 2006.