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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 929290
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929290
Brig o’ Dee, Invercauld
This historic and picturesque bridge, until bypassed in 1859 by the present bridge on the A93 road immediately north, formerly carried the military road from Blairgowrie to Fort George over the Dee at Invercauld. It was built in 1752–53 under the direction of Major W. Caulfeild who, as the successor to General Wade, was responsible for the construction of military roads and bridges in Scotland from 1743–67.
The bridge is asymmetrical with six arches varying from 10–68 ft in span and, characteristically for its genre, the roadway rises sharply from the low river banks to the crown of the main span, has arch-rings of narrow semidressed stones varying from 18–39 in. in length laid radially, and rubble masonry (granite) wing walls, buttresses and spandrels. The irregular span dimensions were dictated by the need to obtain suitable pier foundations. The triangular cutwaters have sloping flagged tops.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
