they are the peepholes in wall decorations by which the owner or steward could keep an eye on what went below. Kind of like a spy hole.
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A squint was a disguised hole in the wall of a house that a tenant or lord could look through to spy on what was going on in his keep.
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No it was not. It was a name for the rich in medieval times and the majority of the population were certainly not wealthy!
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In Medieval times the wells were sometimes polluted because the ground was full of dirt and some people or babies spit in it and think it was a garbage can