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Mauchline

Hospice (Modern)

Site Name Mauchline

Classification Hospice (Modern)

Canmore ID 42705

Site Number NS42NE 6

NGR NS 49 27

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Ayrshire
  • Parish Mauchline
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
  • Former County Ayrshire

Archaeology Notes

NS42NE 6 49 27.

There are references to a "hospitium" at Mauchline (NS 49 27) in 1533/4 and 1535 (Reg Magni Sig Reg Scot). On both occasions it occurs in the phrase "the place, houses and hospice of Mauchline", and there are apparently no other references to it. What this "hospitium" as is entirely uncertain. It may have been a lodging for visiting representatives of Melrose Abbey, or for the 'master' who probably supervised that abbey's property in the neighbourhood (see NS42NE 2).

It may have been an inn for travellers.

I B Cowan and D E Easson 1976

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