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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 715522

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/715522

NT44SE 7 45837 44394.

(NT 4583 4439) Bridge (NR) (rems of)

OS 6" map (1970)

This ruinous bridge was built in 1654-5. It is 125ft [38.1m] long and 10ft [3.1m] wide, with three segmental arches; the roadway was 6 1/2ft [2m] wide. A cutwater projects on either side of the pier between the E and mid arches. The span across the river, the largest, is intact; the other two are broken.

(RCAHMS 1929, visited 1915)

Visited by OS Reviser (MR) 4 November 1953

Bridge, Stow (Gala Water), 1654-5. Three main arches of rubble, diminishing from E to W; disused and broken.

C E McWilliam 1978.

This bridge formerly carried a road or track over the Gala Water to the S of Stow village (NT44SE 19).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 February 2006.

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