Desk Based Assessment
Date 1964
Event ID 991567
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/991567
NO11NW 14 1323 1847 to 1328 1856
(NO 1326 1848) Old Bridge of Earn (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, (1959).
For (successor) New Bridge of Earn (NO 1320 1871 to 1316 1863) and motorway bridge (NO 1374 1839 to 1375 1831), see NO11NW 100 and NO11NW 101 respectively.
The existing fragment of the old bridge consists of two arches. There were formerly five arches, but a sixth was built circa 1760 as a northward extension. The grant of stone for the construction of a bridge is mentioned in a record dated 1329. The bridge is again mentioned in 1614.
NSA 1845.
The Old Bridge of Earn consists of two complete arches on the south bank and an abutment on the north bank of the river.
OS Name Book 1860.
Contemporary documents, including exchequer rolls, mention a bridge in 1329, 1402, 1409, and 1530 A.D. It was ruinous in 1592 A.D.
H R G Inglis 1913.
Information from Ordnance Survey Index Card.
