Archaeology Notes

Event ID 736199

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ20NE 12 25738 08923

Not to be confused with Allargue Arms Hotel, Bridge (NJ 2570 0924), for which see NJ20NE 26.

Cock Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1972.

Cock Bridge. Applies to a stone bridge of one arch over the stream Allt-a Coileach and near to Corgarff Castle: deriving its name from a party of soldiers who when making the military road from Edinburgh to Fort George, having a cock put up on a pole for a waether vane. Maintained by the County.

Name Book 1868.

This bridge has been restored.

Visited by OS (RB) August 1966.

Illustration of old bridge.

I A G Shepherd 1994.

This bridge carries the A939 ('Lecht') public road over the Allt Bad Mhic Griogair.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 July 1997.

There is no change to the existing record.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 9 December 1998.