Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720883

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT63NW 8 c. 645 363

There was a hospital within the Manor of Smailholm, the property of the abbey and convent of Dryburgh. (Information from Liber S Marie de Dryburgh 1848).

A Jeffrey 1864.

'Smalham Spettal' appears in a list of places burned by the English in 1542. Mentions of Smailholm Spittal in rentals of Dryburgh Abbey c1540 onwards, and "elsewhere as late as 17th. March, 1637, are to land so designated."

D E Easson 1957.

No further information was found regarding this hospital or its site.

Visited by OS (WDJ), 21 September 1962.