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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 660898
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/660898
NH55NW 8 5144 5885.
(NH 5144 5885) St John The Baptist's Well (NR)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
This spring bears the name of John the Baptist - the water of which is the purest kind, and till within the last fifty years was resorted to by sick people and maniacs, who always left on a neighbouring bush or tree a bit of coloured cloth or thread as a relic.
NSA 1845.
A spring issuing from a stone-lined open hole, measuring 0.5m x 0.5m x 0.5m deep. The overflow runs freely down the N-facing slope in an ill-defined course.
There is no evidence of any religious use. The name and history of the well survive locally.
Visited by OS (J B), 25 April 1975.
