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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 736400
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/736400
NH64NE 153 66514 47614
Kessock Bridge [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.
Location formerly entered as NH 6614 4792 to NH 6688 4729.
Built 1976-82 by the Cleveland RDL Kessock Consortium in association with Helmut Homberg and Trafalgar House Engineering Services Ltd.
J Gifford 1992.
This bridge carries the A9(T) dual-carriageway public road over the Beauly Firth at the Kessock Narrows, between Longman Point, South Kessock (Inverness-shire) and Craigton Point, North Kessock (Ross and Cromarty). It was built in conjunction with the Cromarty Bridge (NH56SE 37) across the Cromarty Firth, and is approached up a rising road on the S side and across the level clifftop on the N.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 July 1997.
Bridge - observed.
20th century AD; built 1976-82.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.
The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NH c. 66896 47282 to NH c. 66092 47935.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 March 2006.
