Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643895

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY20SW 9 2090 0103.

(HY 2090 0103) Pict's Well (NR)

OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).

Pict's Well is the name given to a small pile of stones encircled by a meagre patch of green grass. There is no trace of a well.

Name Book 1880.

The Pict's Well is not a small pile of stones as stated in the Ordnance Survey Name Book but is a drystone circular well, 0.9m in diameter and 0.5m deep, filled with peat and vegetation, and now disused.

It lies adjacent to the vague remains of a fairly modern drystone-walled enclosure, 17.0m by 15.0m, to which it is connected by an overgrown track, and the two are almost certainly contemporary, although the name suggests the existence of an earlier well or spring.

Visited by OS (NKB) 16 June 1967.