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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710582
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710582
NT15NE 25 1568 5738
(NT 1568 5738) Back Spittal (NAT)
OS 6" map (1962)
Ruins of the Back Spittal House.
R Brown 1808
The ruins of a farmhouse (Name Book 1853), said to have been a hospital for wayfarers, and to have been associated with that at Spittal Farm (NT15NE 5) which was known as the 'Fore Spittal'. (Scott and OSA mention the hospital at Back Spittal, but locate it to the side of a stream on the N of Spittal Hill (NT 1658), giving 'Old Spittal House' as an alternative name.)
F R Coles 1899; H Scott 1950; Statistical Account (OSA) 1794
There are no indications of a hospital at the ruins of Back Spittal.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 12 February 1970
Annotated Back Spittal (Ruin of), one unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire 1853-8, sheet xvii) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1962).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 17 October 2000.
