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Skara Brae gave it the nickname “Scottish Pompeii” and it remains one of the main tourist sites in the Orkney Islands; However, it also has an old hole in the ground that attracts tourists.
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Tourists throw strangely shaped coins into the UK’s most famous lost city, in the Orkney Islands.
It inhabited between 3,100 and 2,500 BC, and Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands is one of the best-preserved agricultural settlements in the British Isles. The position has been nicknamed “Scottish Pompeii” and remains one of the islands’ main tourist sites. .
But it also has an ancient hole in the ground, visited by superstitious visitors, which experts say is simply an “old sewer” into which other people like to throw coins. Those hoping to win the lottery will likely be disappointed to learn that the “wishing well” is part of a formula of well-built drains and giant cisterns.
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Kinlay Francis, excursion consultant for local operator Orkney Uncovered, wrote on Facebook: “For years, other people have been throwing cash into an underground shaft on the grounds of Skara Brae, thinking they were throwing cash into a well to make a wish.
“I’m very pleased to be able to tell my consumers and anyone who throws their money out there that they’re flushing it down the toilet.
“This is the old drainage/sewer at the Skara Brae site. It is not, and I repeat, it is not a wishing well. So don’t go over there and spend a dime. “
The post temporarily garnered more than 2,000 reactions and only about 150 comments. One of them said, “Oh, so it’s priceless!”At one point he said, “It’s not a wishing well. . . it’s a fucking well,” and a third “So it’s really a fucking well, not a wishing well. “Others were less willing to abandon their faith.
“But. . . Maybe it’s luck,” a fourth argued. A fifth wrote, “Where there is clay, there is copper!”
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