Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725306

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX36SW 27 34353 63258

For (successor) New Bridge (NX 3433 6319), see NX36SW 14.

For present (Trunk Road) bridge (NX 34271 62976), see NX36SW 78.

Shennanton Bridge (Old) [NAT]

OS GIS epoch 3.

(Location cited as NX 344 633). Shennanton Bridge: traditional two-arched stone bridge dating from the late 18th century, which carried the Dumfries-Portpatrick turnpike over the River Bladnoch. Now by-passed.

I Donnachie 1971.

(Location cited as NX 343 633). Shennanton Bridge: probably late 18th century. A 2-span, segmental-arched rubble bridge, now bypassed and decaying.

J R Hume 1976.

The old Shennanton Bridge, although no longer in use, is still intact. A double arch bridge, its military origin is debateable, the OS sources disagreeing, with ES (January 1976) considering it not to have been of military construction, whereas the Field Inspector (July 1976) describes it as a military bridge. Described as 'very old' in 1838, it was replaced by a bridge (NX36SW 14) at NX 3433 6319 on the new road.

Information from OS (ES) 30 January 1976.

Visited by OS July 1976.