Bridge Of Isla | Canmore

Road Bridge (18th Century) (1794)

Site Name Bridge Of Isla

Classification Road Bridge (18th Century) (1794)

Alternative Name(s) River Isla

Canmore ID 28535

Site Number NO13NE 66

NGR NO 16358 38159

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Digital Images

SC 2635448

General view from W of SW side of bridge

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/2/2002

SC 2635449

Detailed view from W of W side of N abutment, and of typical voussoirs

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/2/2002

DP 225883

Oblique aerial view of the River Isla at its junction with the River Tay, looking WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

10/3/2015

SC 2397624

Bridge Of Isla, NO13NE 66, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 2635447

Oblique view from NW of SW side of bridge

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/2/2002

DP 225882

Oblique aerial view of the River Isla at its junction with the River Tay, looking WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

10/3/2015

SC 2397625

Bridge Of Isla, NO13NE 66, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 427723

Cargill, Bridge of Isla View of bridge

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Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

9/5/1974

SC 1029180

Oblique view from NW of SW side of bridge

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6/2/2002

SC 2635196

Cargill, Isla Bridge. Postcard view of bridge. Insc: 'Isla bridge, Cargill'.

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c. 1910

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Administrative Areas

Council Perth And Kinross
Parish Cargill
Former Region Tayside
Former District Perth And Kinross
Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO13NE 66 16372 38142

For possible predecessor bridge (adjacent to W), see NO13NE 6.

Large bridge of five round arches with cutwaters. Central inscriptions: 'Founded June 4th 1794'; 'Finished August 18 1796'.

SDD 1962.

(Location cited as NO 163 382). Bridge of Isla, completed 1796. A very handsome five-span bridge with segmental arches. The voussoirs are dressed, and the spandrels rubble. There are triangular cutwaters.

J R Hume 1977.

This bridge carries the A93 public road over the River Isla, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Cargill and Caputh.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 March 1998.

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