Newspaper Clipping - Green Well of Scotland

• Reference:GB 3614 DOCS/6/1/20
• Alternative Id:
  GB 3614 Misc_130
• Former Reference:GB 3614 972
• Name of Creator:
  Carsphairn Heritage Initiative (SC049987)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
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• Scope and Content

  GREEN WELL OF SCOTLANDI NOTICED Mr Begg’s query about the Green Well of Scotland (August 1966). It seems to be the Green Well of Lagwine, on an estate in the parish of Carsphairn. The well is about half a mile from the ruins of the old mansion. It is in the middle of a solid rock, about 30 feet in circumference and of considerable depth. Its waters were at one time used as a cure for scorbutic disease. From the quarry came the stone to build the bridge over the Water of Deuch, which runs nearby.Tradition connects the well with Dr Dodds, an alchemist, who collected fragments of ore, and constructing a crude mint, tried to convert his “gold” into the coinage of the West Indies. When about to be apprehended, he is said to have thrown his whole coining apparatus into the well.I have never visited the well, though I lived in Galloway for many years- it is an area simply teeming with wells.JAMES A. RUSSELL20 Melville Gardens,BISHOPBRIGGS,Glasgow.

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  https://www.carsphairn.org/CarsphairnArchive/items/show/972

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