The seers being the three wooden figures and the well being the part in the middle, this piece by German-Israeli sculptor Belle Shafir stood by the Bogle Crag car park, across the road from 'Light Column'. Shafir said of its meaning:

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"Wouldn't we all like to know our future? I know I would.

The mysteries of the well, at the depths of which mysterious things take place, may hold an answer that might slowly float up to the surface towards me through the still water covered with moss.

The three figures represent me as Mother, Woman and Artist. They also might be the figures that will come to understand the meaning of the mysteries of the well, although I have not."

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The well itself disappeared a few years ago (you can see it's already looking a little worn in the picture) but the figures remain. It is a shame the work can no longer be seen in its entirety, as while Belle Shafir's work has been exhibited around the world, 'The Seers' Well is one of only three pieces by her to have been on display in England (two more non-Grizedale sculptures followed later, this was her first).

 

It was also one of her earliest projects. After living in Amberg, Germany, until the age of nineteen, Shafir emigrated to Israel, where she graduated from the highly-respected Avni Institute of Art in Tel Aviv. She held a couple of early exhibitions in Israel, before 'The Seers' Well' followed in 1994.