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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 704016
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704016
NS75NW 8 71077 57765
For adjacent (to SE) site of Battle of Bothwell Bridge (22 June 1679), see NS75NW 5.
(NS 7108 5776) Bothwell Bridge (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map (1978)
(Location cited as NS 711 578). Bothwell Bridge: a 17th century bridge, widened and improved in 1826 and 1871. It is a four-span masonry bridge, with segmental ribbed arches and triangular cut- waters. On both sides, iron footpaths with cast iron parapets have been cantilevered out.
J R Hume 1976.
Descheduled: former number 1150.
Information from Historic Scotland, 14 November 1996.
This bridge carries the B7071 public road across the River Clyde, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Hamilton and Bothwell.
The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the span. The OS 1:2500 map of 1964 indicates that it extends from NS c. 71050 47790 to NS c. 71108 57730.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 December 2005.
