Ousdale Bridge
Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Ousdale Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Ousdale Burn, Bridge
Canmore ID 7549
Site Number ND02SE 32
NGR ND 06576 20344
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7549
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND02SE 32 06576 20344
(Location cited as ND 066 203). Ousdale Bridge was built by Telford and carries a stretch of by-passed road. It is tall in form and of coursed rubble construction with a narrow semicircular arch of 28ft (8.5m) span and 40ft (12.2m) high. Some buttresses appear in Telford's drawings for the bridge but others have clearly been added, and can be distinguished as curved wedges. The abutments are deeply founded in the rock, the location of construction being difficult.
G Nelson 1990.
This bridge carries the former line of the A9 public road over the Ousdale Burn.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 May 1998.
