It’s rarely a good thing if you find a hole in the floor of your home, but for one 70-year-old, his discovery has opened up a world of opportunities.
Grandad Colin Steer has spent the last decade digging out a 17ft deep medieval well in his living room after noticing a slight dip in the floor when redecorating.
Colin, from Plymouth, found the well ten years ago, and believes it could date back to medieval times after discovering an old sword while digging, and finding plans of the site that suggest the structure could have been built in the 1500s.
‘I found what seemed to be a leather casing of a sword when I was about 5ft into the dig which leads me to believe that the well could be medieval,’ says Colin.
‘However it could date back to even earlier than that because we have no real way of accurately dating it at the moment.’
After noticing the depression on his floor, the 70-year-old says that his first thought was that someone had buried a dead body under their floor because they didn’t live in a mining district.