Site type WELL
Canmore ID 54304
Site Number NT42NW 7
NGR NT 4374 2681
Council SCOTTISH BORDERS, THE
Parish SELKIRK
Former Region BORDERS
Former District ETTRICK AND LAUDERDALE
Former County SELKIRKSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NT42NW 7 4374 2681.

(NT 4374 2681) Tamlane's Well (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)

Tamlane's Well is by the roadside, at the foot of the steep slope that descends from the Carterhaugh farm buildings. The water is delivered by an iron pipe into a large stone trough.
RCAHMS 1957, visited 1952

This well, and Tamlane (son of Randolph, Earl of Moray) are referred to in a fairy ballad (W Scott).
Name Book 1858

The trough into which this well flowed, and water pipe are still in situ, but the well, which was in the bank 2.5 m N of the trough, is now filled in.
Visited by OS (RD) 28 January 1965

No change to the previous information.
Visited by OS (MJF) 16 December 1979

Ordnance Survey (Name Book) Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey (6 inch and 1/2500 scale)
Page(s): Book No.10, 128, 134 Held at RCAHMS Ref

RCAHMS (1957) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Selkirkshire with the fifteenth report of the Commission, Edinburgh
Page(s): 124, No.200 Held at RCAHMS A.1.1.INV/15

Scott, W (nd) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,
Page(s): Vol.2, 334-50