Archaeology Notes

Event ID 855330

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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On the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire 1854, sheet 13) and on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire 1895, sheet viiiSE) this bridge is seen to be carying a road over the railway. In the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1991) and on the OS Basic Scale raster map (ND) this road is shown to be the A7.

Information from RCAHMS (MD) 2 August 2001.

Red sandstone road overbridge situated where the A7 Murderdean Road crosses the former Waverley rail line. Stone arch with string course at road level, stone parapet.

The course of the orignal Arniston Branch railway was later utilised in 1847 by the North Bitish Railway Company in the construction of the Edinburgh to Hawick Branch Railway.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), August 2006