Scores of big trout finned in the current beside the crumbling bridge abutment.

NPR: Excerpt: 'World Made By Hand'

The remains of the abutment that supported the Roman bridge stand a hundred yards from the present course of the river.

BBC: Walking Hadrian��s Wall

Tellingly, motorists who cross the bridge from the south often turn off just beyond the abutment at the north and turn around to park and admire the bridge they have just crossed.

WSJ: A Concrete Ribbon Through the Clouds | Millau Viaduct | Masterpiece by Joseph Giovannini