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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Slot Well (Buittle) Alternative Name: Buittle Slot WellCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 3.8 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Dalbeattie Nearest Village: Buittle
Map Ref: NX8134861618
Latitude: 54.935080N Longitude: 3.853445W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Dumfries and Galloway
Information about this well, used to cure animals rather than people, has been collected by the Can You Dig It: Lost Wells of Galloway (LWoG) project.
Lyn Ferguson, the LWoG researcher, tells us that "Slot Well sits at the edge of forestry on the eastern side of Barskeoch Hill. It first appears on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854 and continues to appear through to current mapping (2022) ... the OS name book describes it as "a spring upon the farm of Buittle Place and used to be resorted to be the credulous .... The name book also quotes from Symson's 'Description of Galloway', at the end of Nicholson's History of Galloway, page 35, volume 2: This well is made us of by the country people when their cattle are troubled with a disease called by them the 'Connoch'." Lyn tells us the well is also recorded as entry MDG4566 on the Dumfries and Galloway Historic Environment Record website.
This well is also recorded as Canmore Site ID 64993, the 1914 entry of which reads: "The Slot Well was frequented in 1684 by people wishing to cure their sick cattle. As a thank-offering they left behind the bands and shackles used to bind the animals." An update added in 1963 and confirmed in 1969 reads: "The Slot Well is now buried beneath stones which have fallen from the field dyke, and a mass of tangled under- growth. A steady stream of water, however, issues from the ground 3.0m below the position of the well indicating that the spring is still functioning. It would appear that the Slot Well was a natural spring."
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