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Brand's Well
Holy Well (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Brand's Well
Classification Holy Well (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Gala Law
Canmore ID 55034
Site Number NT48SE 12
NGR NT 4758 8171
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/55034
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Dirleton
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT48SE 12 4758 8171.
(NT 4758 8171) Brand's Well (NR)
OS 6" map (1968)
Brand's Well, the only spring of water on Gala Law, is possibly a holy well endowed at Gullane by David I.
J Hardy 1885
Brand's Well (name confirmed) is a flat-topped stone structure 2.2m x 1.1m x 1.0m high, containing a cast-iron trough with a supply pipe protruding above it in the NW wall. It is now completely dry. Inspection shows, however, that it was supplied by pipe from another well situated 23.0m to the NW; this has an abundant supply still flowing through the pipe, which ends almost at Brand's Well, and thence to waste in an open drain.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 November 1962
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (SFS) 10 July 1975.
