Bruce,
I've been watching with interest this discussion. You know
Upwich was excavated 6 ft. deep but at the rim there was a curved
indentation on the timber where they had presumably drawn the bucket
to the side of the pit. As you know it was 10 ft square so a different
cup of tea to the bottle wells where as you suggest the incurved rim
presumably protected the water. I am amazed that you are attempting to
dig to (did you say) 135 ft. When they dug a sewer trench at Droitwich
(18 ft or thereabouts?) they had to use heavy metal shuttering to prevent
caveins!
Bea
On 11/6/01 12:37 PM Spas Research Fellowship writes:
>Bea et al
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>Another thought that I had about bottle wells - when you draw water with a
>bucket on a chain, the bucket will not hit the sides dislodging the well
>lining.
>
>We found very little when digging out my well although there is still a long
>way to go. We dated the infill to about 1926.
>
>Bruce
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>>From: Bea Hopkinson <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subject: Re: Shoulder/bottleneck wells
>>Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:32:21 -0800
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>>Bruce,
>> This design is intriguing. Wouldn't that design make it difficult to
>>draw water ? I presume the well is brick lined.
>> Did you find anything interesting when digging out. Thats quite a
>>depth.
>>
>>Bea
>>
>>On 11/4/01 1:38 PM Spas Research Fellowship writes:
>>
>> >Katy
>> >
>> >Your enquiry about bottle wells sounds particularly interesting because I
>> >have one in my garden. I think it dates from about 1890 and is about 5
>>feet
>> >diameter in the shaft, which reduces to 3 feet diameter at the top. I
>> >believe the depth is about 180- feet but no one will viluteer to dig it
>>out
>> >with me beyond the first 25 feet, which we did last year.
>> >
>> >I will have a hunt about and see if I can find anything more. A quick
>>look
>> >at Swindell J G (1851) "Well-Digging and Boring" yielded no explanation
>>for
>> >this bottle shape.
>> >
>> >Bruce
>> >
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>> >>From: Katy Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
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>> >>To: [log in to unmask]
>> >>Subject: Shoulder/bottleneck wells
>> >>Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:21:21 +0000
>> >>
>> >>I'm passing on an enquiry from Dorothy Treasure, a buildings
>> >>archaeologist from Wiltshire. She is looking for information about the
>> >>construction of shouldered wells, also termed bottleneck wells - the
>> >>shaft-wells that are wide for most of the shaft but narrow down to a
>> >>shoulder-and-neck shape at the top. The literature seems to be very
>> >>thin.
>> >>
>> >>I've suggested Dorothy Hartley's 'Water in England' and John Vince's
>> >>Shire Album 'Wells & water supply'.
>> >>
>> >>Can anyone else help? Please copy replies to
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>> >>Many thanks,
>> >>
>> >>Katy
>> >>
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