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Architecture Notes
Event ID 856701
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/856701
Historic Scotland List Description
Description:
Circa 1762. Long humped back bridge, large single arch ring
with smaller secondary arch at west approach; rubble, squared
rubble dressings to arches. Coped parapet rising to point
over centre of main arch, coping composed of combination of
horizontal and vertical slabs. Curved and splayed approach at
east.
Notes:
Scheduled monument. Part of military road from Contin to
Poolewe constructed circa 1762, probably by Major Caulfield [Caulfeild]
(succeeding) General Wade. Shored up at NW with 2 old
telegraph poles. Now bipasses by A835 road.
Reference:
J.B. Salmond, WADE IN SCOTLAND (1934) p. 296-8. National
Monuments Record of Scotland.
Building de-listed, though scheduled 2007.
Information from Historic Scotland 2007.
