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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 715548
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/715548
NT47NE 35 485 780.
Ballencrieff (Red Spittal) Hospital, dedicated to St Cuthbert, is mentioned in 1291, but was of considerably earlier date as there is in 1296 a somewhat indefinite reference to its foundation by the ancestors of Robert de Pinkeny. The patronage of the hospital is mentioned in 1421, but it was apparently defunct by 1481, since on that dare 'Redspetall' was one of the prebends constituted in Dunglass church.
D E Easson 1957
No evidence for the site of this hospital was seen, and there is no knowledge of it at Ballencrieff (NT 485 780).
Visited by OS (RDL) 24 October 1962
No further information (see also NT47NE 4).
Visited by OS (BS) 14 October 1975
