Archaeology Notes

Event ID 739797

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS38SE 22 39104 81947

Balloch Br [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.

Also see Architecture Catalogue.

Not to be confused with Lomond Bridge (NS 39146 81745), for which see NS 39146 81745.

For predecessor bridge (at same location), see NS38SE 89.

(Location cited as NS 391 819). Balloch, Road Bridge, late 19th century. A five-span bridge with three lattice-truss spans and a shorter plate-girder span on each side. The girders are supported on cylindrical masonry piers.

J R Hume 1976.

This bridge carries Balloch Road, Balloch over the River Leven, at the southern end of Loch Lomond.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 October 1997.

This site was visited and photographed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, 3 September 1975. See NMRS MS/749 [Dunbartonshire, Bonhill/ Balloch parish] for contact prints JR Hume H75/53/15-16.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Balloch Bridge, Balloch Road. Opened 1887; a replacement for the suspension bridge (NS38SE 89) of 1841. By engineers Hanna, Donald and Wilson of Paisley. Five-span steel girder crossing of the River Leven. Three central spans are lattice girders, the outer two plated girders; each rests on cylindrical sandstone piers which become octagonal above the carriagway level. Two remaining lamp standards.

J Gifford and F A Walker 2002.

The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the structure.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 December 2005.