Archaeology Notes

Event ID 758896

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/758896

NJ20NE 9 27154 07555

See also NJ20NE 8, NJ20NE 10, NJ20NE 11.

This military bridge is on the line of the Coupar Angus - Fort George road. It is in a bad state of repair (see NJ20NE 10 and NJ20NE 11 ).

Visited by OS (RB) September 1966.

This 18th-century military bridge is now in a ruinous condition, with only the N half of the single-span arch surviving. This arch measures 6.1m in width and 2.4m in height and, at the level of the roadway, the masonry survives to a greatest breadth of 1.85m. The NW the bank of the stream is much higher than on the SE, where the approach to the bridge is raised on a grass-grown ramp some 3.3m in breadth at road-level.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 17 March 1998.

This bridge carries the former line of the A939 public road over the Allt Damh.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 December 1998.

Coping stones in the burn are in use as a ford.

NMRS, MS/712/41.

Scheduled as 'Bridge on Old Military Road over Allt Damh Burn... on the line of the Old Military Road connecting Coupar Angus to Fort George'.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 4 March 2002.