Newton Burn, Bridge
Road Bridge (19th Century)
Site Name Newton Burn, Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Lurg Burn Bridge
Canmore ID 25560
Site Number NN83SE 7
NGR NN 88926 31833
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25560
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fowlis Wester
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN83SE 7 88926 31833
For Military Road see NN83SE 9
This is an old bridge traversing the Lurg Burn.
W Taylor 1976.
NN 8892 3182. Typical military type single arch bridge
Information from OS (WDJ) November 1970
(Location cited as NN 889 318). Military road bridge, c. 1730. A small parapetless rubble bridge, with a single semicircular arch. To the north is a well preserved stretch of road, its edges defined by rows of boulders.
J R Hume 1977.
Standing Building Recording (20 July 2009 - 17 September 2009)
NN 90099 27415 (Fendoch Bridge), NN 90259 27808 (Fendoch Culvert) and NN 88919 31844 (Newton Burn
Bridge) A photographic, drawn and written record of the above 18th-century military bridges was produced as part of the wider conservation project, Bridging Perthshire’s Past. The recording project ran from 20 July–17 September in 2009.
Lindsay Farquharson – Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust
Watching Brief (17 September 2009)
NN 88919 31844 A watching brief was also carried out at the Newton Burn Bridge during the installation of a timberlined drain across the northern approach to the bridge on 17 September 2009. This revealed a metalled road surface of stones of 0.05–0.10m in diameter held in a matrix of medium orange brown silty-clay up to 0.25m in depth. Two lines of larger stones (c0.2m in diameter) running on a NW–SE alignment were found bordering this surface. The surviving road surface was 2.25m wide. There was no sign of the gravel layer or base layer of large boulders that is recorded in documentary sources and which has been found in previous
excavations of the 18th-century military road.
Archive: PKHT and RCAHMS
Funder: Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust and Heritage Lottery Fund
Lindsay Farquharson – Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust
