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Dunkeld, Old Bridge

Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Dunkeld, Old Bridge

Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) River Tay

Canmore ID 27202

Site Number NO04SW 46

NGR NO 02 42

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Little Dunkeld
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO04SW 46 02 42

See also NO04SW 37.

For present bridge (NO 0267 4252 to 0268 4236), see NO04SW 34.

A bridge is said to have been built over the River Tay at Dunkeld in 1469. No trace of it remains. The foundations of a second bridge was laid in 1513 by Bishop Brown, 'near to his own palace', and it was continued and competed by Bishop Gavin Douglas. Part of the arch that sprung from the N bank is still entire, and when the river is low the piles on which the second and third arches were supported, were visible in the early 19th Century. It is not known when this bridge was destroyed.

OSA 1791; NSA 1842; R Pococke 1887.

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