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Clam Bridge (Iron Age Bridge)

Fieldnotes

Stumbled across this bridge today during a visit to Wycoller and recognised it from this website.

It is easy to find if you were looking for it and it is just a bridge across a small ford. It was repaired in around 1989 after it collapsed and it is now held in with an iron bar which is visible.

There is not much water in the stream so the bridge hardly seems necessary but it may have had another purpose or the stream may have had more water many years back therefore justifying the bridge's existence.

I have added a pic of me on the bridge (blue fleece) so you can see the size of the bridge compared to a 5 foot 9 man.
Posted by Saban-of-Stonehenge
20th July 2009ce

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