Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668488

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ63SW 24 6495 3254.

(NJ 6495 3254) Lady's Well (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959)

A well, believed to have healing qualities, had been at the foot of the Culsalmond Bank, to the W of Lady's Causeway (a farm, shown on OS 6" map 1873).

In digging a drain at the foot of the bank, a workman struck his pick into the bottom of a well which had been there, causing the water to re-issue. A well-preserved gold coin of James I was recovered and is now in the Freefield collection. (The NSA [1845] does not make it clear whether the coin was found in Lady's Well, though this is likely.)

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

A spring well now converted to an open drinking trough. Name Lady's Well still known locally.

Visited by OS (NKB) 13 March 1969.