Archaeology Notes
Event ID 849434
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NS89SW 104 80944 90470
Not to be confused with (predecessor) Bannockburn, Old Town, Old Bridge (NS 80761 90446), for which see NS89SW 15.
Architect: Thomas Telford, 1819.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE: SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE
Building of the New Bridge
Thomas McMicking mentions that in 1819 while he was Factor at Polmaise he was given the post of Superintendent of the building of the Bridge.
Letter from Thomas McMicking to John Murray.
1839 GD 189/2/834
(Undated) information in NMRS.
This bridge carries the A9(T) public road over the Bannock Burn within the area of Bannockburn village (NS89SW 32). It is depicted, but not noted, on the 1979 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 June 2006.