The name, “Five-Wells,” has arisen from the circumstance that in the vicinity, five fields so abut upon a spring that each has a drinking-place or “well supplied therefrom. The name is also applied to a farmhouse near.
From John Ward’s ‘Five-Wells Tumulus, Derbyshire’ in the Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist (1901). He describes his excavations of the site.
The five wells are still there in the fields below the chamber.
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