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Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 2:17 PM
Subject: St.Firmin's Well
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have just joined this mailbase as a way of hopefully tapping into some
> specialist knowledge. I am responsible for the Durham sites and monuments
> record and over the last few months we seem to have had several enquiries
> about wells. One in particular I would appreciate thoughts, information,
> comment on.
>
> St Firmin's sometimes spelt Fermen's well is located close to Bowes
Village
> in the Durham North Pennines just to the north of the Yorkshire Dales. The
> site lies next to an ancient trackway at the base of an escarpment
> ,immediately below a Roman Fort and vicus and a later Norman castle. The
> site of the well is today tumbled down and overgrown but clearance by a
> local history group has revealed a small drystone construction niche in
> the hillside with a shallow basin in front. The site appears to have been
> abandoned in early Victorian times.
>
> Does anyone know anything of St. Firmin, any other such dedications and
> indeed if there maybe any possible classical or Roman associations?
>
> Any help gratefully received
>
>
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