Archaeology Notes

Event ID 748695

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS66SW 102 61726 62654

Location formerly cited as NS 6172 6265.

Formerly also entered as NS66SW 877 at cited location NS 61722 62654.

For predecessor bridges (at the same location), see NS66SW 964.

For nearby barrage balloon site (NS c. 6177 6249), see NS66SW 824.

Dalmarnock Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:1250 map, 1973.

Dalmarnock Bridge, Dalmarnock Road, built 1889-91, Crouch and Hogg, engineers. A five-span iron girder bridge on stone piers, with cast-iron quatrefoil panels hiding the structural members and a cast-iron balustrade of Gothic arches. The stonework of the piers is carried up to balustrade level and cast-iron lamp-posts are mounted on top.

J R Hume 1974

Dalmarnock Bridge, 1889-91. Engineer Crouch and Hogg; contractor A H Boyle of Bonnybridge; iron and steel fabricators Jardine and Co of Motherwell. A perfectly horizontal five-span bridge of riveted steel plate girders hidden behind cast iron fascia panels with repeating quatrefoil motif. The piers, founded on iron caissons, are of sandstone with a granite impost, the sandstone then extended up in moulded panels to the top of the parapet, which is formed of cast iron Gothic arcading. On the sides of the abutments, pairs of polished pink granite columns.

E Williamson, A Riches and M Higgs 1990.

This bridge carries Dalmarnock Road across the River Clyde, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Glasgow (to the N) and Rutherglen (to the S).

The cited location defines the centre of the span, but the available map evidence suggests that the bridge extends from NS c. 61717 62691 to NS c. 61732 62611.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 December 2005.