Archaeology Notes

Event ID 780966

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX89NE 71 87081 95480

(Location cited as NX 871 954). Bridge, Thornhill, late 17th or early 18th century. A handsome two-span bridge with dressed-stone arch rings and rubble spandrels. The arches are segmental and the triangular cutwaters extended up to form pedestrian refuges.

J R Hume 1976.

This bridge carries the A702 public road over the River Nith on the W side of Thornhill. The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Morton and Penpont.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 January 1999.