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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 767823

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/767823

NS94SW 35 91479 41460

Hyndford Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map [undated].

Hyndford Bridge [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, January 2010.

For associated tollhouse (adjacent to S end), see NS94SW 58.

(Location cited as NS 914 414). Hyndford Bridge, built 1773, engineer Alexander Stevens. A 4-span bridge with segmental arches of unequal size. The arch rings are of dressed stone, with rubble spandrels and parapets. There are rounded cutwaters extended upwards to form refuges. Below the parapet is a dentilated cornice.

J R Hume 1976.

Removed from scheduling list (former no. 2766).

Information from Historic Scotland, 22 April 1996.

This bridge carries the A73(T) public road across the River Clyde, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Lanark (to the N) and Carmichael (to the S).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 March 1997.

Site recorded during an archaeological evaluation conducted on 30 alternative route elements, with a combined length of c84km, for a proposed road linking the M8 near Whitburn, Lothian Region with the M6/M74 near Douglas, Clydesdale District.

NS94SW 35 Bridge

An illustrated report will be deposited with the NMRS.

Sponsor: Roads Directorate of The Scottish Office Industry Department, managed on its behalf by Historic Scotland.

A J Dunwell and R J Strachan 1995.

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