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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 850576
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/850576
NS75SW 50 73131 54530
Viaduct [NAT]
OS (GIS) AIB, May 2006.
For associated railway tunnel (adjacent to E), see NS75SW 344.
(Location cited as NS 731 546). Avon Viaduct, opened 1860 by the Caledonian Rly. A 4-span viaduct, with segmental arches of dressed-stone construction.
J R Hume 1976.
This viaduct carries the Motherwell-Hamilton railway line across the River Avon to the S of Hamilton (NS75NW 44).
The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NS c. 73111 54543 to NS c. 73151 54520.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 May 2006.
