looks like a' baffle well' a natural spring higher up the hill would feed it. the walls behind would filter the sediment out so the half basin would keep clen water in.
My place is in a similar location. Old maps show a well here, but the reality is that it's a spring. I dug around the area 25 years ago and no sign of a 'well', but the spring is still there and now supplies all my water. It does move a little over time and needs to be guided back to exactly where the sand filter I made is, about every couple of years. It's just a trickle, but feeds the sand filter, an underground tank, pump and filter. Not sure how planning would view such a setup these days? Boreholes seem to be all the rage, big money though !!
It did fill up with water over the next couple of days but then we got a lot of snow so it was hard to tell before we left. When we get back to the land we will check straight away 👍🏼
Well Well Well, did someone say 7 Days 😅 sorry 😂 Brilliant one Both. Looks like a water separation point, to help filter it out a bit. Trees don't help. Them sort don't have deep roots, and be sucking hell of a lot of the water up off the watertable. Need to go deeper. Get 2 bits of metal wire and make a water diviner. It sounds crazy but they actually work. Fantastic video. Love and Big Hugs Both ❤️
Looks like you're really enjoying yourself & it's a beautiful plot of land. But I think with so much land & trees etc to be cleared & stuff you really need to get yourself a mini excavator with a thumb up there what's taking you hours would take you minutes. Unless doing it all by hand is what you really love then keep on digging. But the land is really really nice, I am jealous.
There probably was a little spring there before the Forestry Commission ploughed the furrows to plant the trees on, (thus re-routing the flow). Probably worth having a look in the trees up above the property to see if there is a boggy area that was perhaps the original spring.
Great video guy's.I can't wait to see what structure you decide on building.lmao you trying to find the elusive well.My advice is keep digging Brother.
I believe your idea is correct about a spring I have seen that way of gathering water before on old homesteads you both are doing great work❤June & jack🙏🏻👌
You need a long handled shovel bro, saves a ton of backache. Two lengths of fence wire about two feet each, make a right angle to both to fit in your hands and walk around the area. Soon as the wires cross each other you’re standing on top of your water supply. Works well for a few people,others not so much. Does the trick for me so it’s worth giving it a try. Looks like an old trough you’re digging up. I love your videos, keep safe 🏴
Probably years ago when the trees were a lot smaller, there would have been more water. Now they are huge and taking more of it up, there’s less collecting.
Love the work and effort you guys are putting in. Waiting for 3 episodes times where you discover a box under the bracken with mains electricity and gas supply 😂
I think I would clear as much of the land as I could first. Probably take off a lot of the lower branches as well from the trees as well. Just so I could see what I had to work with.
Great! I've been eagerly waiting for this next one. Part of the structure you have been digging could have been a sump where the water was clearer with less silt.😁
WOW! What a project! How much water collected? I appreciate your aerial perspectives, however, I wasn't able to get a good sense of where your digging location is to your camp site.......? I would like to know if that fallen tree (that you hang your jacket on), lays over a natural rock outcropping or part of the former stone building? Perhaps laying up some firewood by removing that tree....? I love your rich dark soil!!! Gorgeous! And I, too, would never ever grow tired of being in your clearing surrounded by those blue/green trees!!! Also, are you composting your growing piles of weeds/bracken or have you considered controlled burn piles? Great to see a new episode! Thanks very much!
@@livinginkevlar A avid follower of Marty Raney's Homestead Rescue show here in the USA, I have learned that if you find a natural spring be quite careful because they can easily be destroyed. If that is the well you've uncovered, and it is a natural spring, might the lady on this property lived alone without the need of the kind of well we all imagined? Fun episode!🤩
@ some spring’s come from deep underground and some not so deep, if it’s not so deep then it’s a strong possibility that the trees are sucking the water up. Is the wood forestry planted or is it natural?
Strange to go to so much trouble capping it off with all those slabs if its not a deep well. i guess time and further investigation will reveal whats there. Interesting to see and hear what was going on the land over the years.
So we are pretty sure this is an Artesian well and the only thing I can think of for covering the well is to indicated where it was for future owners of the land. We are slowly gathering historic information on the land to make a video one day 👍🏼
That was a buzzard.. if you see it again, ballance a bit of meat/chicken breast on one of the pine tree branches about head/chest height.. before long, you'll have a pet buzzard :-)
@GARDENER42 , best way for them to identify it (without a camera) is by the white flares underneath the wings. The only bird (remotely) close to it is the Golden Eagle and it has no white underneath the wings. Love these birds!
@@saltyhaggis I regularly see two or three driving the 3½ miles to Ennerdale Bridge. There & ospreys are a superb sight. I remember watching the golden eagles over at Haweswater but I think the last one died about 10 years ago.
@GARDENER42 , I WOULD like your comment, but... It is never nice to hear that a Golden is gone from the breeding ground. I live in Perthshire in Scotland so I see Goldens and Buzzards quite alot. Not so many Ospreys out here though! Glad you get to see them where you live though!
I was worried the well might be filled in. Let’s hope there is a way of sorting it. Looks like you’re going to need an expert for that. Good luck though. Xxxx
Another great vid! Such a lot of work. Thanks guys. Out of interest, is it pretty much just the clearing you own, or some of the woodland too? Cheers 😊
That all looks odd to me. I think I'd be inclined to get rid of that dead tree and all the overgrown vegetation between where you were digging and the gable of the old house to see what else is lurking in there. The structure you've found might make more sense with a bit more context to it. I'm about 40km from you and discovered the well on my property a few years ago. Mine was a proper round stone structure, but filled to the brim with rocks. Further investigation showed that it is at least 6m deep, and since it is where I park my car, I'm pretty glad it had been safely filled in rather than just capped! For your situation I would have expected a spring line collection chamber, rather than a well (OS maps didn't always distinguish between the two) and yours could be similar to the roadside well on the way into Dingwall, just after the Mart.
I would talk with a planning consultant that has had success with your local council. Your site would never get planning with our council as it’s no longer residential, and no dwelling exists, just a heap of stones. The old house would have to be up to wall head height at least to have a chance, even then they could refuse it.
Probably was a traditional round stone built well and probably not all that deep either. Bear in mind those trees weren't there when the cottage was occupied. You could find out when they first started the plantation. The trees would have started sucking up a good bit of water and the well dried up. Why is there a concrete wall, possibly part of the stonework could have collapsed is my guess. The cesspit could be full of damn good compost! Or 🤮
Canmore shows nothing for their site, nor does the Highland Historic Environment website. Of course, that could simply be due to a lack of prior archaeological investigation...
@@rb9580 i agree with this comment, the further west or higher up you go in scotland the less archeology is identified, that could well be due to the lack of investigation. a study of the gaelic place names surrounding the area might be useful here if all else fails. tx for the replies tho'
Are you allowed to level the land in your area? I know some places are protected in Scotland. If it was okay I would probably clear and level as much as I could first thing.
Definitely a buzzard; you can tell by its distinctive 'pew, pew' cry. Eagles are normally silent, as are red kites of which there are a lot in that area - you can distinguish those by their slim shape and forked tail.
looks like a' baffle well' a natural spring higher up the hill would feed it. the walls behind would filter the sediment out so the half basin would keep clen water in.
This was a true TimeTeam special episode. Loving the format. Thanks for taking us on your journey ❤
Happy to see another episode. Thank you.
Hope you enjoyed it 😁
Absolutely fantastic. Well done and well done Rachel for spotting the precise location of it as well ✌✌
My place is in a similar location. Old maps show a well here, but the reality is that it's a spring. I dug around the area 25 years ago and no sign of a 'well', but the spring is still there and now supplies all my water. It does move a little over time and needs to be guided back to exactly where the sand filter I made is, about every couple of years. It's just a trickle, but feeds the sand filter, an underground tank, pump and filter. Not sure how planning would view such a setup these days? Boreholes seem to be all the rage, big money though !!
Yes, if anything this looks like a spring collecting area. Just have to wait and see if it fills with water, or anywhere else does.
It did fill up with water over the next couple of days but then we got a lot of snow so it was hard to tell before we left. When we get back to the land we will check straight away 👍🏼
Well Well Well, did someone say 7 Days 😅 sorry 😂 Brilliant one Both. Looks like a water separation point, to help filter it out a bit. Trees don't help. Them sort don't have deep roots, and be sucking hell of a lot of the water up off the watertable. Need to go deeper. Get 2 bits of metal wire and make a water diviner. It sounds crazy but they actually work. Fantastic video. Love and Big Hugs Both ❤️
Looks like you're really enjoying yourself & it's a beautiful plot of land.
But I think with so much land & trees etc to be cleared & stuff you really need to get yourself a mini excavator with a thumb up there what's taking you hours would take you minutes.
Unless doing it all by hand is what you really love then keep on digging.
But the land is really really nice, I am jealous.
Might be worth giving your ground a sweep with a metal detector.
There probably was a little spring there before the Forestry Commission ploughed the furrows to plant the trees on, (thus re-routing the flow). Probably worth having a look in the trees up above the property to see if there is a boggy area that was perhaps the original spring.
Well well well. What a mystery. Another great video m8
Still scratching my head 😂 thank you 👍🏼
@livinginkevlar when are yous back up this way?
dude living your best life right there on your own land so jealous
Happy new year to you both
Well ...well done guys you have all the time in the world step by step you Will get there fantastic video stay safe guys. 👍👍👍🍺🍺🍺✌️✌️✌️
looks like it could of been a spring box.
It does fit the description!
I know you didn't find exactly what you wanted but you have some excellent rocks. Hope you find a well.
Great video guy's.I can't wait to see what structure you decide on building.lmao you trying to find the elusive well.My advice is keep digging Brother.
I believe your idea is correct about a spring I have seen that way of gathering water before on old homesteads you both are doing great work❤June & jack🙏🏻👌
You need a long handled shovel bro, saves a ton of backache. Two lengths of fence wire about two feet each, make a right angle to both to fit in your hands and walk around the area. Soon as the wires cross each other you’re standing on top of your water supply. Works well for a few people,others not so much. Does the trick for me so it’s worth giving it a try. Looks like an old trough you’re digging up. I love your videos, keep safe 🏴
Probably years ago when the trees were a lot smaller, there would have been more water. Now they are huge and taking more of it up, there’s less collecting.
Yep, this is definitely something we thought about as well. We might need to dig a little deeper for the new well.
Love the work and effort you guys are putting in. Waiting for 3 episodes times where you discover a box under the bracken with mains electricity and gas supply 😂
Could be a concrete lintel to suport capping stones
Try a water diviner
Good call 👍🏼
Good idea👌
I think I would clear as much of the land as I could first. Probably take off a lot of the lower branches as well from the trees as well. Just so I could see what I had to work with.
Great! I've been eagerly waiting for this next one. Part of the structure you have been digging could have been a sump where the water was clearer with less silt.😁
Hope you enjoyed it 😁
Yes, bought back memories of exploring when living near Tarland, Aboyne. Thanks @livinginkevlar
WELL done!
Happy new year guys 🏴🏴🏴❤️
Happy new year, have a great one 😁
Wish I had a quid for every time you said WELL !
Me too! 😂
Those trees look so beautiful in the drone shot.
Your 'well' looks more like an animal watering place.
Gostei Muito estou curioso pra os próximos episódios e a construção da casa 🏡 de voces começa quando, um grande abraço e sucesso 🥳🎉🎈
I’m glad you like the episode, plenty more to come. 😁
Be lovely to see if you can get enough water from the spring to create enough of a head, to power your own some hydro gen
WOW! What a project! How much water collected? I appreciate your aerial perspectives, however, I wasn't able to get a good sense of where your digging location is to your camp site.......? I would like to know if that fallen tree (that you hang your jacket on), lays over a natural rock outcropping or part of the former stone building? Perhaps laying up some firewood by removing that tree....? I love your rich dark soil!!! Gorgeous! And I, too, would never ever grow tired of being in your clearing surrounded by those blue/green trees!!! Also, are you composting your growing piles of weeds/bracken or have you considered controlled burn piles? Great to see a new episode! Thanks very much!
possibly two chambers as the first would hold any sediment and overflow cleaner water into the second..just a wild guess,, could it be an outdoor loo?
I liked the first part of this comment, really hoping the second part is incorrect 😂 on the map it does say “Well” so 🤞🏼
@@livinginkevlar also have a look at your old maps and see if there are springs marked on it in the vicinity.
All the digging and looking at stones and rocks reminds me of Time Team….😅
It felt like time team!
I think that might have been the base for a pump, constructed on top of an earlier spring collector.
Probably had a pump through a hole at the center of the slabs it would have always been covered. Or a spring into trough.
Welcome to Scotland. Do you know when the foresty plantation around your site is to be felled if it is?
Hope its a well 🙏
Definitely a well but not the one I was expecting 😄
@@livinginkevlar A avid follower of Marty Raney's Homestead Rescue show here in the USA, I have learned that if you find a natural spring be quite careful because they can easily be destroyed. If that is the well you've uncovered, and it is a natural spring, might the lady on this property lived alone without the need of the kind of well we all imagined? Fun episode!🤩
❤EPIC❤
Cheers 😁
If it’s a spring then maybe the mature woods behind has sucked all the water up and is interrupting the flow
Yes this is a strong theory, I don’t know if digging deeper would help?
@ some spring’s come from deep underground and some not so deep, if it’s not so deep then it’s a strong possibility that the trees are sucking the water up. Is the wood forestry planted or is it natural?
Strange to go to so much trouble capping it off with all those slabs if its not a deep well. i guess time and further investigation will reveal whats there. Interesting to see and hear what was going on the land over the years.
So we are pretty sure this is an Artesian well and the only thing I can think of for covering the well is to indicated where it was for future owners of the land. We are slowly gathering historic information on the land to make a video one day 👍🏼
That was a buzzard.. if you see it again, ballance a bit of meat/chicken breast on one of the pine tree branches about head/chest height.. before long, you'll have a pet buzzard :-)
Definitely a Buzzard at the start of your video.
Yep.
@GARDENER42 , best way for them to identify it (without a camera) is by the white flares underneath the wings. The only bird (remotely) close to it is the Golden Eagle and it has no white underneath the wings. Love these birds!
@@saltyhaggis I regularly see two or three driving the 3½ miles to Ennerdale Bridge.
There & ospreys are a superb sight.
I remember watching the golden eagles over at Haweswater but I think the last one died about 10 years ago.
@GARDENER42 , I WOULD like your comment, but... It is never nice to hear that a Golden is gone from the breeding ground. I live in Perthshire in Scotland so I see Goldens and Buzzards quite alot. Not so many Ospreys out here though! Glad you get to see them where you live though!
I'd love to come and help
I think youre close to the well, that looks like an animal trough to me, which would be close to the well, maybe even next to it for convenience
That was defo a buzzard at the start 👍🏻
It was 👍🏼
I was worried the well might be filled in. Let’s hope there is a way of sorting it. Looks like you’re going to need an expert for that. Good luck though. Xxxx
Perhaps she had a pump over the well and the half circle was where they stood the China jug! Someone dropped the hug and it smashed.
Another great vid! Such a lot of work. Thanks guys. Out of interest, is it pretty much just the clearing you own, or some of the woodland too? Cheers 😊
That all looks odd to me. I think I'd be inclined to get rid of that dead tree and all the overgrown vegetation between where you were digging and the gable of the old house to see what else is lurking in there. The structure you've found might make more sense with a bit more context to it.
I'm about 40km from you and discovered the well on my property a few years ago. Mine was a proper round stone structure, but filled to the brim with rocks. Further investigation showed that it is at least 6m deep, and since it is where I park my car, I'm pretty glad it had been safely filled in rather than just capped! For your situation I would have expected a spring line collection chamber, rather than a well (OS maps didn't always distinguish between the two) and yours could be similar to the roadside well on the way into Dingwall, just after the Mart.
probably hand a hand pump fitted so not so much hauling of buckets. Semi circle may have been for animals to drink from.
I would talk with a planning consultant that has had success with your local council.
Your site would never get planning with our council as it’s no longer residential, and no dwelling exists, just a heap of stones.
The old house would have to be up to wall head height at least to have a chance, even then they could refuse it.
I thought it was a buzzard..❤
It was a buzzard, very special moment ☺️
Well well well, what do we have here? It's quite odd, looks like it needs taking back further to see whats going on around it
I’m going to make sure I’m very aware 5 days time after watching this video 😟
I filmed this back in November, you’re safe 😂
Watching you dig the well, I thought, ....This is how the Oak Island money pit must have begun! 😂
Gosh please don't get Cam started on Oak Island, sincerely, his fiancée 😂😂😂😂. He'll love that comparison. 😂
@sheisremote 😂😂😂
You wait until I get a metal detector! 😂
Probably was a traditional round stone built well and probably not all that deep either. Bear in mind those trees weren't there when the cottage was occupied. You could find out when they first started the plantation. The trees would have started sucking up a good bit of water and the well dried up.
Why is there a concrete wall, possibly part of the stonework could have collapsed is my guess.
The cesspit could be full of damn good compost! Or 🤮
looks like a cairn, could be bronze age, have you checked on the Canmore site?
dont dig out anymore stones, clear the top soil from around the area first
It’s 100% a well, it shows it on os maps until around 1981.
Canmore shows nothing for their site, nor does the Highland Historic Environment website. Of course, that could simply be due to a lack of prior archaeological investigation...
@@rb9580 i agree with this comment, the further west or higher up you go in scotland the less archeology is identified, that could well be due to the lack of investigation. a study of the gaelic place names surrounding the area might be useful here if all else fails. tx for the replies tho'
Don't worry, looking for water on your property freaks a lot of people out. It's overwellming! (sorry! : )
Just didn’t want to see a woman crawling out of it whispering 7 days 😳 (the movie - The Ring)
Hahahahaha best comment
Plumbing the depths with that pun 😂
At 11.33 I thought he was going to well up
Are you allowed to level the land in your area? I know some places are protected in Scotland. If it was okay I would probably clear and level as much as I could first thing.
Well boyo it's a lot easier to dig half hole/ Well the a full one.
This is definitely true 😄
Sounds like buzzards, grew up with that sound. : )
Very special moment!
@@livinginkevlar You'll have crows, etc, attacking them.
this is the weirdest episode of time team i've ever seen lol
And you learnt nothing, sorry about that 😂
To get a start on your motor every time, first time, stand above it, pull the cord out to full extension and just let go, thank me later
Well done ,pardon the pun.
Puns are welcome on this channel 👍🏼
@@livinginkevlar well,well,well 🤣
👍
Love your channel and what you are doing, but you thought if the trees around you are harvested will you exposed to the elements.
the fact someone buried it may mean it is not good water
If it's not a spring fed well, maybe it's a shit pit and that wasn't mud on your gloves. 😲 😆
Can’t you speak 0:34 0:35 to a local about the plot ( local gamekeeper etc . Have you heard of a ram pump , don’t need power to it
This is something we could definitely do. I haven’t no, something I should look into?
Deffo a buzzard
Oh well. Well done anyway for trying 🤦♂️ sorry I’ll see myself out…
You are looking after the land, nobody owns it
Made in china oh well if I'm wrong
That's was an owl
You sure! What type of owl?
@@livinginkevlar it was a buzzard
Definately a Buzzard
Definitely a buzzard; you can tell by its distinctive 'pew, pew' cry. Eagles are normally silent, as are red kites of which there are a lot in that area - you can distinguish those by their slim shape and forked tail.