Archaeology Notes

Event ID 704253

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704253

NS79NE 58 77010 95615

For (successor and present) Drip Bridge (adjacent to N), see NS79NE 75.

For (associated) Toll House (at W end), see NS79NE 23.

Built by public subscription, perhaps before 1745. Five arches, 206' long.

SDD List

(Location cited as NS 770 956). Old Drip Bridge, early 18th century. A handsome 5-span rubble bridge, with segmental arches increasing in size to the centre. There are triangular cutwaters extended up to form semi-hexagonal pedestrian refuges.

J R Hume 1976.

This bridge carries the former line of the A84 (T) public road over the River Forth which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Kincardine (Stirling) to the W and St Ninians to the E.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 October 1997.

(Former Index no. 2797). Descheduled.

Information from Historic Scotland, Certificate of Exclusion from Schedule dated 17 December 2010.

Old Bridge [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, January 2011.