Well House In Robins Wood Hill Country Park At Ngr So 840 156

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SO81NW RESERVOIR ROAD 844-1/3/248 Well House in Robins Wood Hill Country Park at NGR SO 840 156

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Well head or cistern built above a spring which formerly supplied water to the Well Cross (qv), at a lower level on the east side of the hill. Possibly C12, ie the same date as the Well Cross for the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter, or C13. Built of dressed oolitic limestone slabs held by iron cramps; a low rectangular structure with a long slab on each side, and a slab infilling the north end, all supporting a cover or roof slab approximately 2m long and 23cm thick which oversails the open south end; the opening protected by three vertical bars inset between the roof slab and a stone sill at ground level; the top of the roof slab has low pitched slopes to each side of a central longitudinal ridge. The wall slabs are believed to be set above a brick pit about 1m deep into which the spring fed through an 8cm pipe. HISTORY: see Well Cross (qv)

Listing NGR: SO8400215613