Sounds like a path to a spring box.  

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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Linda Stine
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Subject: stone-lined pools and channels

Someone sent me this- does this sound familiar?  For a dye pool?  Cistern?
or?  I haven't seen it yet.


"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. "

Linda
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