At Jamestown, wells are conspicuous features near many house locations.
Those that have been found may be summarized as follows: wood lined--1;
circular, brick cased--10; circular, uncased with wooden barrel at
bottom--6; circular, uncased, incompletely excavated--4.
Wells are invariably found filled with earth mixed with trash, mainly
food animal bones. A well, located immediately north of the row house,
had a human left leg and left half of the pelvis buried in the fill at a
depth of 4 feet.