Archaeology Notes

Event ID 705495

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH66NE 21 65454 69632

Alness Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1992

Location formerly entered as NH 65449 69632.

For corresponding footbridge (adjacent to N), see NH66NE 119.

For successor (by-pass) bridge (NH 65657 68535, to S), see NH66NE 122.

ARCHITECT: Thomas Telford (1803-21).

(Undated) information from NMRS.

(Location cited as NH 642 716). Bridge, Alness, built c. 1810, engineer Thomas Telford. A rubble bridge, with a single segmental arch.

J R Hume 1977.

This bridge carries the former line of the A9 (T) public road (now the B817) over the River Averon or Alness River in the middle of Alness (NH66NE 34). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Alness (to the W) and Rosskeen (to the E).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 June 2001.

The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NH c. 65438 69633 to NH c. 65465 69633.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 April 2006.