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| ROMAN BRIDGE | Roman Bridge | Edward Lawson Esq | About 41 chains NW | This is the site of the ancient bridge which | ||
| (Site of) | Roman Bridge | Mr Snaith | of Blakehope | carried Watling Street over the River Rede | ||
| Roman Bridge | Mr Anderson | There are now no visible remains of this | ||||
| (Site of) | ancient structure nor is there any authentic | |||||
| "Very nearly in the same line, in the bed of the river, and four feet | record of the mode of its construction it is however | |||||
| below the lowest water in dry seasons, is to be seen a piece of | certain that a great quantity of oak was used | |||||
| timber fastened down seemingly by piles driven on each side | in the foundations the last of which was taken | |||||
| of it. A piece of this wood has been cut off and a table made of it | up a few years since in an excellent state | |||||
| which has taken a good polish. It is conjectured that this | of preservation and much valued on account | |||||
| may have been part of a bridge at one time" | of its antiquity | |||||
| MacLauchlan’s Memoir of Watling Street page 32 | ||||||
| River Rede | See name book of S. 41 P. 12 | |||||
| See name book of S. 51 P. 10 | ||||||
| See name book of S. 51 P. 14 | ||||||
| Dargues Burn | See name book of S. 51 P. 14 | |||||
| Durtrees Burn | See name book of S. 42 P. 16 | |||||
| Edw. Gillespie Sapper Royal Engineers | ||||||
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