I didn't realize that becoming someones Hero would bring forth such discussion!
As i said, I wasn't sure about putting the well on the TMA but.....
It is easy to take water for granted...you turn on a tap and there it is...fresh, clean and drinkable. We wash with it, we cook with it and we use it for power (occasionally) I spent Friday afternoon walking around Cardinham parish on the edge of Bodmin Moor, during the walk I came across a dried up ditch...I found out later it was the remains of a leat that took fresh water from a spring on the moor down to the village. It must have taken ages to dig this ditch through a countryside full of granite boulders...but they did it cos they had to.
If man finds fresh water then it is pretty special and I am sure the ancients thought of it as a gift from the gods. No, we have no way of proveing this...but then again we have no way of proving that a standing stone was put up to worship or just to make sure you didn't get lost on the way home from the chieftans orgy!
Good discussion
Mr H
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