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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Mary's Well (East Morton)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.2 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Thornhill Nearest Village: Durisdeer
Map Ref: NS88870123
Latitude: 55.292601N Longitude: 3.751609W
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
Classified by Canmore as a holy well - see their entry for Site ID 46356, 'East Morton, Mary's Well', their first entry from Ramage's 1876 publication "Drumlanrig Castle and the Douglases with the early history and ancient remains of Durisdeer, Closeburn and Morton", page 328, simply says: "Mary's Well, a holy well, is situated on a hill at East Morton farm".
The OS name book of 1856 adds: "A well supplied by several surrounding springs. The name is ancient, but it cannot be ascertained whether it was a sacred well or not".
The Canmore entry was updated in January 1978 to say: "All that can be seen at the published site is a modern water storage tank. There is no longer any trace of a well." The well was marked on the OS 6-inch map of 1957, although not named on the 18th century estate map of East Morton farm (see plan by Leslie, James, ca. 1758-75 [NLS link shared by their Creative Commons licence CC-BY]
Does anyone have any historical information and/or drawings of this well? Are you able to confirm this well has holy associations? There appears to be no church or chapel nearby, although there are castles and mottes in the area.
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