Witching works for some, but not for me. My 8 year old son (now 46) located our water line when I had him walk slowly across the yard holding the rods.
And a local funeral director has an unbelievable ability to not only locate bodies in a cemetery, but to tell you whether they are male or female. She has been "tested" many times, and always wins the test. Many of our old cemeteries aren't laid out in lots, and many graves are un-marked, so she double checks before digging, to see if the spot is already occupied.
I still can't wrap my mind around the idea of laying brick on top of a steel ring and letting the whole apparatus slide downward as you dug under/around it. That sounds like a disaster in the making. This was long before hardhats had been thought of.
There are many rock lined wells around here, using small flat rocks like you'd find in the local creeks. Some brick lined cisterns, but I don't remember seeing any brick lined wells. Might be a regional thing - there were a couple of brick plants in the area long ago, but creek rocks were free.
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