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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | A poem by 18th century poet, Robert Fergusson, exists about the custom of visiting of the well on May Day as mentioned above by feorag
On May-Day, in a fairy ring,
We've seen them round St. Anton's spring,
Frae grass the caller dew-drops wring
To weet their een,
And water clear as crystal spring,
To synd them clean.
There was once a sign on the rock above the well basin … hence the hole.
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