Friends of Penrith and Eden Museum Manager at Duff House, Banff, Aberdeen. Fell and Rock Climbing Club World War One The position of Assistant Curator has been memorial plaque from the top of Great Gable. advertised and it is hoped an appointment will be Two books giving accounts of this bequest are made by the Autumn. available in the TIC . -2019 PURCHASES . As you will be aware one of our THE BOWES MUSEUM . Seventeen members

2018 aims is to support the Museum when suitable with travelled to the Bowes Museum where they were purchases, particularly of a local nature. This year taken on an instructive and interesting guided tour. NEWS we have purchased a Charles 1st medallion, dated Members then enjoyed exhibitions of their choice AD 1640-1675, which was found at Kirkby before most gathered to watch the silver swan. It and PROGRAMME Stephen and also ten silver coins from was voted a successful and enjoyable day. Similar Crosby Ravensworth. These were intriguingly excursions could be arranged given sufficient found in a straight line at intervals amongst the support from members. stones . It is suggested that this was an accidental THE COMMITTEE welcomes all members to a PROGRAMME of TALKS loss from a pocket. The coins are pennies from new season, with particular mention of those who Edward 1st’s reign (1272-1307) and Alexander 3rd Tuesday 9th October, 2018 - 2.00pm have joined during the summer and whom we look of ( 1249-1286). Both purchases are on Vernacular Buildings in - June Hill forward to meeting at the first of our talks in display. Recently the Friends have purchased a October. During the year we have supported the Tuesday 20th November, 2018 - 2.00pm collection of Wetheriggs Pottery which has now Museum by purchasing three items of a local and been received by the Museum. Roman Surveyors in Cumberland historic nature which are now on display. We Alan Richardson enjoyed a coach trip, the first for many years and, AN ART CARD which is larger than a post card hopefully, not the last. Our numbers and in order to reproduce the entire picture, is on sale Tuesday 12 February 2019 - 2.00pm in the TIC(60p). It is of the by Emma attendance have remained steady but do advertise Cumbria’s Landscape in late Medieval times our existence to your friends and bring them to Watson of ‘Penrith 1896 Devonshire Street & our talks. To be able to show a strong membership Market Square’. The painting hangs in the first David Wilcock is particularly helpful when applying for grants to room of the Museum. Tuesday 19th March 2019 - 2.00pm purchase items. We look forward to seeing you at Several EXHIBITIONS have been held at the The De Veteripont family - Alastair Robertson the meetings during the year. Museum. Earlier this year work by Lorna Graves Tuesday 9th April 2019 - 2.00pm THE MUSEUM. Sydney Chapman , Curator, was featured which is linked with the current works part time at the Museum so, if you wish ‘Mapping Long Meg’ undertaken by local school- Annual General Meeting children under the guidance of Karen MacDougall, specifically to talk to him, it is best to make an Talks by members follow the business meeting. appointment. Corinna Leenan, Assistant Curator, a fascinating exploration of this ancient site. On An introduction to each talk is given overleaf. has now left to take up a position as Collections display until November 30th is the original PROGRAMME of TALKS Hadranic) was also centred on but offset by a was Sheriff of Cumberland and at times family loyalties specific and very significant angle. This offset system were torn between England and Scotland. appears to have reached from Hadrian’s Wall to the Tuesday,9th October 2018 Tuesday, 9th April 2019 vicinity of Shap. It is suggested that the remains of the Vernacular Buildings in Cumbria squares of both systems persisted into the period of A G M - 2.00pm medieval and modern enclosure and so shaped the June Hill Business Meeting followed by talks from Members. modern landscape. CVBG (Cumbria Vernacular Buildings Group) was founded five years ago, to enjoy and understand the Tuesday, 12 February 2019 vernacular buildings in the county through the study of Cumbria’s Landscape in late medieval times. ‘home-grown’ buildings, made for a particular purpose THE FRIENDS of from materials to hand, using local skills and David Wilcock PENRITH and EDEN MUSEUM traditions. We have looked at a very wide range of The talk will be a Powerpoint presentation of features structures: both houses and workplaces, archaeological in today’s landscape that can be traced to the settlement Chairman: Mr Peter Simpson remains and ruins, fine mansions and churches. Our aim of Cumbria during Norman and Plantagenet times and 4 Carleton Terrace, Penrith . CA11 8PF is to record as many structures as possible, in the face of the development of agriculture, industry, religion and change over time. society during these periods. Specific topics to be Email: [email protected] The presentation will describe vernacular buildings in discussed will include open fields and common land, the Secretary : Mrs Bridget Davey Cumbria with illustrations. Cumbria must have the improving lot of the medieval poor, sheep farming, greatest variety of building materials of any county in royal forests, manorial houses, coppicing, Lyndale, Langwathby CA10 1LW England, based on its complex geology, relief and monastic granges and the particular effect of woodland Email: [email protected] vegetation. How our predecessors used these materials removal on landscape erosion and lake sediments. is a fascinating area for observation and research. Treasurer: Mr Jeff O’Neill Tuesday, 19th March 2019 Tuesday, 20th November 2018 Moss Bank House, Great Salkeld, Penrith CA11 9NA The Rise and Fall of the De Veteriponts The Roman Surveyors in Cumberland Email: [email protected] Alastair Robertson Alan Richardson The De Veteriponts came to England with William the Meetings There is much literary evidence of the competence of Conqueror; William De Veteripont is recorded in action are held at the ancient surveyors and map-makers but it is largely at the battle of Seniac. By marriage and by royal gifts Quaker Meeting House confined to specialist literature and so ignored by most from kings of England and Scotland the family acquired general academic historians. This talk briefly estates in Cumberland, Westmorland, Berwickshire and Meeting House Lane, Penrith summarises that ancient corpus and adds the results of Wigtownshire. They also held lands in Devon and at 2.00pm on a Tuesday as indicated in the Programme . some recent studies. It then presents the evidence, Huntingdonshire as well as retaining their original Visitors Welcome Ample parking on site detectable on the modern map, of Roman surveying in estates in Normandy. During the twelfth and thirteenth eastern Cumberland. This is derived from the centuries the De Veteriponts were prominent in the life Subscriptions are due annually on 1st January distribution of a vast number of linear features, such as of this area. Robert De Veteripont was King John’s field boundaries, roads and village sites and their very right-hand man, holding the strategically important Pay at the January meeting or send to the Treasurer precise special relationships to each other, as well as to castles of Brougham, Appleby, Brough and Bowes. His £8 single; £13 couple Visitors £3 per meeting. the Roman road network and Hadrian’s Wall. In short older brother, Ivo de Veteripont, was a hot headed Museum Curator Sydney Chapman there were two large field systems, both based on warrior who fought in the Crusades and in Scotland squares. One (probably pre-Hadrianic) was aligned against the Galwegians. The family members were Tel : 01768—865105 Email: [email protected] NSEW and centred at Carlisle, stretching from benefactors of several abbeys, including Shap. Thomas Entry to the Museum is free. Kirkbride to Castle Carrock. A second (probably de Veteripont was Bishop of Carlisle, another, Robert,