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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 738666

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/738666

NN28SW 6 20059 82108 MR 1

Not to be confused with Spean Bridge (over River Spean, in Spean Bridge village), for which see NN28SW 15.

Remains of High Bridge (AD 1736) [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, [no date available].

REFERENCE - Photographs: National Library of Scotland; Nattes Drawings.

20 Sept. Vol IV no 61. Drawings of High Bridge over the Speyan 8 miles from Fort William.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

High Bridge was built by General Wade in 1736 (see NN28SW 7). By the 1930's one of its 3 arches was broken and by 1979 only one survived.

Visited by OS May 1970; February 1979.

J B Salmond 1938.

This constitutes the remains of a triple arch stone bridge, known as High Bridge, which was completed in 1736. There is complete disintegration of one arch and the remainder of the bridge is threatened with imminent collapse. Although an iron truss has been positioned across the top of the bridge, it does not appear to furnish any support.

M Logie (Highland Council) 1997; NMRS MS 1007/3.

This bridge carries the line of the Wade Road MR1 over the River Spean about 2.2km WNW of Spean Bridge village (NN28SW 16).

The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the structure. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NN c. 20046 82096 to NN c. 20070 82114.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 April 2006.

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