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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.

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