Dundee, High Street
Well (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dundee, High Street
Classification Well (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 305660
Site Number NO43SW 1039
NGR NO 403 302
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/305660
- Council Dundee, City Of
- Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Excavation (1967)
NO 403 302. During excavation work for the third phase of redevelopment at the Overgate, part of a stone-built draw well was brought to light. It was 12' below the present pavement level and near the site of Our Lady Warkstairs, a fifteenth century tenement building. The pace of construction work meant that Museum staff were only given enough time to expose the upper part of the well. This was found to contain a thick layer of leather - mostly parts of shoes and leather cuttings- intermixed with which were several brown, glazed stone-ware jars and a few textile fragments.
J D Boyd 1967
Field Visit (12 January 2018)
NO 403 302 A post-medieval stone, probably 18th or 19th century, was found by SSE workers in a service trench in the pavement beside the Clydesdale Bank, 8 High Street, on 12 January 2018. It is a square shaped mica-rich sandstone with rounded corners and has the number 14 roughly incised on it. There are iron hooks on the top, fixed to the stone using poured lead .L:285mm; W:275mm; Th:40mm; Wt:8kg.
Originally thought to be a sluice gate, it has been identified by Douglas Speirs, Fife Council Archaeologist, as a post-medieval counter weight for a clock or door, possibly associated with the Townhouse. The rounded corners suggest it moved vertically and was encased in a wooden box. The meaning of the incised number 14 is unknown.
Archive: Leisure and Culture Dundee (DUNMG 2018–86)
Christina Donald – Leisure and Culture Dundee
(Source: DES Vol 19)