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Tweed's Well

Spring (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Tweed's Well

Classification Spring (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) River Tweed; Tweedsmuir; Source Of River Tweed

Canmore ID 48487

Site Number NT01SE 12

NGR NT 0537 1463

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Tweedsmuir
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Tweeddale
  • Former County Peebles-shire

Archaeology Notes

NT01SE 12 0537 1463

(NT 0537 1463) Tweed's Well (Source of River Tweed) (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1911)

Tweed's Well at Tweedsmuir had become holy through the sacred associations of baptism, or equally holy from grateful benefits derived from mineral qualities.

C B Gunn 1930.

A natural spring. There is no evidence for its being a holy well.

Visited by OS (W D J), 14 September 1959.

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Visibility: Evidence for this site, or the origins of this site, comes from documentary sources. Nothing may be visible at this location.

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