Archaeology Notes

Event ID 705947

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS84SE 71.00 86871 44480

NS84SE 71.01 86945 44468 Tollhouse

NMRS REFERENCE

Architect: Thomas Telford. Completed 1822.

NMRS PRINTROOM

Photographs of Lanarkshire scenery by J M'Ghie, Hamilton, published by W Ritchie, Edinburgh. Inscribed 1867 ac no 1990/34

pg 18 single arch bridge called 'Roman bridge' over Mouse Water, in the background an arch of the later bridge.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NS 869 444). Cartland Bridge, built 1822, engineer Thomas Telford. A beautiful 3-span, dressed-stone bridge with semicircular arches on slender piers. The socketsfor the centring can be seen near the tops of the piers. Concrete footpaths have been cantilevered out.

Can only be properly viewed in winter, owing to tall trees in the valley.

J R Hume 1976.

This bridge carries Lanark Road, which here forms the A73(T), over the Mouse Water to the WNW of Lanark (NS84SE 75).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 Febaruary 2006.