Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690730

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO51NW 47 5130 1661.

Well or sump.

In garden of Priorsgate; underground stone structure, coursed, cone shaped. Base 3.7m below modern surface; top 0.6m below modern surface. Walls straight from base to 1.3 above base, corbelled above. Maximum diameter 2.5m, minim um diameter at mouth 0.7m. Fill at base of large stones and dirty sand with small chunks of sandstone. Above 1m fill was mainly clean sand (builder's) rubble, except in centre where sand was dirty, mixed with soil which had percolated from the top. Damaged on W side when a pipe was laid nearby. This area had been repaired with wooden boards. On N was an inlet and on SSW a socket, about 0.5m from the top. No clear indication of use of structure. Rubble fill may date from rebuilding of Priorsgate in late 18th century, which could indicate structure was out of use by that time.

E Proudfoot 1982