After the women and children were massacred in the Bibighar, their remains were dumped down this well. The Bibighar itself would be torn down by the British, but they built a small cross to commemorate the victims. The well was filled with earth and bricked over - although as the bodies decomposed, the bricks subsided. Later the inhabitants of the city of Cawnpore were forced to pay '30,000 to pay for the creation of a full memorial.
