Samson's Walls

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Samson's Walls as Holy Well (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Samson's Walls is associated with Saint Samson, a 6th-century Irish monk and missionary linked to the spread of Christianity in parts of Scotland and northern England. The site may have been a place of pilgrimage or ritual, reflecting early Christian traditions connected to holy wells as sites of healing and spiritual significance.