Archaeology Notes

Event ID 775046

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH69SW 61 c. 60930 91528

Bonar Bridge (Iron) [NAT]

OS (GIS) ep. 1.

Location formerly entered as NH 6093 9154

For (adjacent) present and successor bridges, see NH69SW 62.00 and NH69SW 62.01 respectively.

Telford's Bonar Bridge was built in 1812 and was similar to that at Craigellachie (NJ24NE 15). Telford intended it to have two identical cast-iron arches, but the absence of a suitable rock base on the S side caused it to be built with two masonry spans and an iron one of 150 ft (45.7m). It survived the impacts of fir trunks and a ship, but collapsed in January 1892 when it was undermined by flood water.

G Nelson 1990.

This bridge formerly carried the Inverness - Wick public road (now the A9) over the Kyle of Sutherland, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Kincardine (to the SW) and Creich (to the NE). The 1st edition of the OS map (GIS ep. 1) places the centre of the span at NH 60930 91528

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 May 1998.