Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716574

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT43SE 5 45815 32554

(NT 4581 3255) Yair Bridge (NAT)

OS 6" map (1971)

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Records Office: GD 157/821

Payment of Harden's subscription of £10.10.0.

Cash book. c1762.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Yair Bridge, of three arches, carries the Edinburgh to Selkirk road over the River Tweed. The date of its construction is not recorded, but as the Act for the road was passed in 1764 it is reasonable to assume that the bridge dates from this time or perhaps a few years earlier. The masonry is random rubble, apart from the bases of the piers and abutments, which are block in course. The total span is 146 ft and the span of each arch 42 ft, the head- way over the river being 22 ft. The width between the parapets is 13 ft 9 ins; there is no footway, but a refuge is provided on either side over each pier.

RCAHMS 1957, visited 1948.

(Location cited as NT 458 325). Yair Bridge, Fairnilee: mid 18th century. A handsome 3-span rubble bridge, with segmental arches and triangular cutwaters extended upwards to form pedestrian refuges.

J R Hume 1976.

This bridge carries the A707 public road across the River Tweed, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Caddonfoot (to the N) and Selkirk (to the S).

The location assigned to this record indicates the centre of the span.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 January 2005.