Archaeology Notes

Event ID 776243

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH69SW 62.00 60919 91540

Bonar Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.

NH69SW 62.01 NH 609 915 (predecessor) Old Bridge

Location formerly entered as NH 6093 9154.

For (predecessor) Telford bridge (NH 6093 9154), see NH69SW 61.

The present Bonar Bridge was designed by Crouch and Hogg, built by William Tawse Ltd, and opened in 1973. It is of bowstring girder construction, measures 339 ft (103.4m) in overall length, and is built on a slight gradient like its predecessor (NH69SW 62.01).

G Nelson 1990.

This bowstring girder bridge (built 1973) replaces an 1893 bridge built by Sir William Arrol & Co Ltd, Glasgow. This in turn replaced the earlier Thomas Telford bridge (see also NS69SW 61).

Information from RCAHMS, 29 June 1995.

This bridge carries the present line of the A9 (T) public road over the Kyle of Sutherland to the W of Bonar Bridge village (NH69SW 143). The Kyle of Sutherland here forms the boundary between the parishes of Kincardine (to the SW) and Creich (to the NE).

The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NH c. 60846 91515 to NH c. 60978 91560.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2006.