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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 762847
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/762847
NJ53SW 27 52688 31372
For adjacent pillbox and predecessor bridge, see NJ53SW 26 and NJ53SW 86 respectively.
(Name cited as Howets of Kennethmont and location as NJ 527 313). This bridge was built in 1852-4 by Alex. Gibb and carries a public road (now the A979) across both the (Inverness-Aberdeen) main line of the Great North of Scotland Rly (to the E) and the Water of Bogie (to the W). It is of coursed rubble construction and has a semi-elliptical arch over the railway and one of semi-circular form over the river; the central buttresses are broad and battered.
NMRS, MS/712/11.
The Water of Bogie here forms the boundary between the parishes of Rhynie and Kennethmont.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 November 2000.
