Canmore Site 87631: CRIEFF TO DALNACARDOCH MILITARY ROAD - CRIEFF - MILITARY ROAD (18TH CENTURY)
Description
Site Name | CRIEFF TO DALNACARDOCH MILITARY ROAD |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NN82NE 24 |
Broad Class | DEFENCE |
Site Type(s) | MILITARY ROAD (18TH CENTURY) |
NGR | NN 8908 2600 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 10m |
Local Authority | PERTH AND KINROSS |
Parish | CRIEFF |
Record created | 1995-11-01 |
Last updated | 2008-06-05 |
Archaeology Notes
NN82NE 24.00 8855 2500 to 8999 2708 and NN 8999 2994 to 8989 2999 MR 3 (Formerly LIN 501)
General Wade's Military Road (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map (1978).
NN82NE 24.01 NN 8907 2599 Parkneuk Burn (Milquhanzie Hill) Bridge
NN82NE 24.02 NN 8988 2692 Foulford Hotel Bridge
From NN 8999 2708 to 8999 2994 the military road continues on NN92NW (NN92NW 35).
The military road heads NE to the E of the modern A822 road. At Foulford Inn (NN 8982 2672) it 'crosses to the W side and a short distance down from the main road, you will find a two-arched Wade bridge (NN82NE 24.02) over a tributary of the Fendoch Burn (NN 8988 2690)'.
J B Salmond 1938.
The line of the military road follows a route to the E of the modern road, with a substantial wall existing on the uphill side of the road, as well as the stumps of what had formerly been a line of trees. At NN 891 260 are the traces of a bridge traversing a burn, and nearby are the remains of a former settlement. As the road heads NE, the line is very faint and ceases completely in a field approximately 200 yards S of the Foulford Inn. Just N of the inn, the military road crosses to the N of the modern road and heads NE towards the Sma' Glen.
W Taylor 1976.
NN 8855 2500 - 8855 2506 no trace, but modern road probably on course of Wade's road.
NN 8855 2506 - 8900 2565 extant.
NN 8900 2565 - 8905 2588 road runs between later field walls.
NN 8905 2588 - 8908 2600 road c.5m wide running between later field walls.
NN 8907 2599 slight remains of probable Wade bridge (NN82NE 24.01)
NN 8908 2600 - 8948 2640 extant.
NN 8948 2640 - 8966 2656 well-defined track between field walls.
NN 8966 2656 - 8986 2675 probable course of road, no definite trace.
NN 8986 2675 - 8999 2708 Wade road on line of acc[omodation] road
NN 8988 2692 single arch bridge with arched culverts on either side (NN82NE 24.02). Bridge 3.2m span 4.8m wide. Culverts 3.2m span. 4.8m wide.
Bridge destroyed, land arch on N survives. Land arch on S obscured by debris.
Military road perambulated and surveyed at 1:10000 where extant.
Visited by OS (SFS) 9 October 1975
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