What is recorded here

Half a metre beneath modern soil, a medieval spring still breathes water into a hole no wider than a dining table. The Hospital of St. John drank from it, bled into it, and forgot it. Forgetting is not the same as losing. The well remembers every mouth that touched its edge.

Located just W of the graveyard at the site of the Hospital of St. John (ME017-044026-). Archaeological testing (01E0819) in the rear garden of one plot identified a natural spring at one point with medieval pottery in a small deposit (dims 1.1m x 0.5m; D 0.1m) nearby (Meenan 2001, 2003). The spring (diam. 1.2m; D 0.75m) underlay a deposit of masonry rubble with brick and was excavated (03E1899) by Duffy (2006) who interpreted it as a well which had medieval pottery in its fill. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 2 May, 2019

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