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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 714071
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/714071
NT27SE 1.02 25082 73613
Well of the Well-house Tower (NR).
OS 1:1250 plan, (1950).
One of the two wells used by the Garrison of Kirkcaldy of Grange during the siege of 1573. Position of site is commemorated by drinking fountain.
Formerly shown on 1/2500 scale as St Margaret's Well.
J Skene 1822.
A spring known as St Margaret's Well supplied the Tower (Midlothian 3 NE 1.12).
This spring, in 1867, was led to a fountain at the junction of the
tower and the end of a wall which runs NE. from it.
RCAHMS 1951.
(NT 2509 7361) No trace of this well exists today.
Visited by OS(JLD) 29 December 1953.
A plaque on the drinking fountain states: 'The fountain of the ancient well-house tower ... (of)... the 11th cent.
Visited by OS, 2 February 1954.
The site is as described by previous field report.
Visited by OS (SFS), 2 December 1975.
Wellhouse Tower
(remains of) [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, November 2009.
