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Embankment Culvert
Just to the right of the footbridge where the Causey burn continues it comes across what is a much bigger engineering project than Causey Arch with a much wider and deeper gap between the banks of the gorge through which the stream ran. Firstly by building a stone culvert to cover the stream then infilling the gorge with stone, soil and whatever else they could get their hands on. When complete the embankment was approximately 300 feet broad and around 150 feet wide and around 120 feet high. It is estimated that between 1.5 and 2 million tons of whatever, was used to infill the gap. The culvert is still in first class order today and that is even older than the Arch. When considering this was all done by manual labour without the aid of any machinery with only horses to help it is quite incredible.
Embankment Culvert
Just to the right of the footbridge where the Causey burn continues it comes across what is a much bigger engineering project than Causey Arch with a much wider and deeper gap between the banks of the gorge through which the stream ran. Firstly by building a stone culvert to cover the stream then infilling the gorge with stone, soil and whatever else they could get their hands on. When complete the embankment was approximately 300 feet broad and around 150 feet wide and around 120 feet high. It is estimated that between 1.5 and 2 million tons of whatever, was used to infill the gap. The culvert is still in first class order today and that is even older than the Arch. When considering this was all done by manual labour without the aid of any machinery with only horses to help it is quite incredible.