Archaeology Notes

Event ID 752026

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS66NW 7.02 6008 6551.

A stone-lined well shaft was uncovered during earthmoving operations associated with the District Council's construction of a garden to the W of the 15th-17th-century Provand's Lordship. The well was located 8.5m W, and 5.5m N of the NW corner of the Lordship, just outside the area of Chilton's 1979 excavation (NS66NW 29). The shaft had a diameter of O.9m within its lining of rough sandstone blocks each measuring cO.20m by cO.25m. There were vestigial remains of a degraded lime mortar bonding the blocks of the lining, which was built within a narrow cut through the natural till. The uppermost remaining course of the lining was c 0. 95m below the modern ground level, and there was standing water in the well 1.Om below this course. The shaft was plumbed to a depth of c 1.2m below water level.

The shaft was capped with paving flagstones before the construction of the late 19th-century buildings on the site. The capping was disturbed during the demolition and site clearance which took place in the late 1970s. No finds were recovered from the well, but it is most likely to date from the 18th century.

Sponsor: Strathclyde Regional Council.

SRC SMR 1994h.