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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Boiling Springs (Cambusbarron)
Country: Scotland County: Stirling Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Stirling Nearest Village: Cambusbarron
Map Ref: NS77879124
Latitude: 56.098280N Longitude: 3.964877W
Condition:

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3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1	Completely destroyed

no data Ambience:

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3	Ordinary
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no data Access:

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
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5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Stirling

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features an old line drawing of this pair of Boiling Springs, located to the west of Cambusbarron in Stirlingshire. See their page for
Boiling Springs, Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire, which gives a brief 'archaeology and history'. The springs no longer exist, possibly have been absorbed into the quarries at Gillies Hill, although TNA mentions that one of them was close to the old building of Fir Park, whose overgrown remains are within the woods at grid-reference NS 7787 9124.

Canmore ID 121635 has a record for the quarry (date unassigned), together with a tang and barbed arrowhead and a quern found nearby, but has no further information.

The TNA page also mentions that the picturesque well heads were: "then situated in a marshy dell and surrounded by a dense pine wood near to the ancient ‘Boiling Springs’, now dried up by the sinking of the lime pits, and immediately off the old bridle road from Stirling to Glasgow by Murrayshall, shows very ancient remains of wells connected with the original water supply of Stirling by lead pipes from ‘Lessfeerie Springs’, situated in the Touch Hills." Canmore ID 46271 mentions the lime kilns and includes a photograph, but there is no mention of the springs.

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NS7791 : Fir Park, Polmaise by Richard Webb — by Richard Webb
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NS7791 : Path, Fir Park by Richard Webb — by Richard Webb
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NS7791 : Woodland track in Fir Park by Alan Reid — by Alan Reid
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NS7791 : Forest near Polmaise by Robert Murray — by Robert Murray
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