Possibly a retting pit for textile fibre plants (flax for example)?

Am 08.07.2014 23:46, schrieb Linda Stine:
> Someone sent me this- does this sound familiar?  For a dye pool?  Cistern?
> or?  I haven't seen it yet.
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> "A few years ago I was with some people who were interested in a homestead
> begun by a German family in 1760... and the stone foundation and fireplace
> were still extant five years ago. In the 1970s someone began building a
> house on top of it, but didn't quite finish.  Most interesting is a channel
> cut in the ground in front of the house.  It is a few feet wide and lined
> with cut stone.  It runs perhaps forty or fifty yards to a deep, wide pool,
> also lined with cut stone and having stone steps leading down into it.  The
> German immigrant who built it...wrote in his will that he was a weaver. "
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