You can pick up a leaflet with a map and brief guide to the Pinkie Cleugh Battlefield Trail from Fisherrow Library, or from Musselburgh Museum. The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh Exhibition will be open in Musselburgh Museum, Thursdays to Saturdays, 10:30 to 4 pm, until 29 November.
Or you can click here to see or print the leaflet on line.
The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (1547) - which took place in the fields south of Musselburgh - is one of the most important battles in Scottish history. For the past two years, Pinkie Cleugh Battlefield Group has been working to help enhance the experience of visitors to this interesting and rewarding site. Now we are embarking on a project which will culminate in the creation of a Battlefield Trail in time for the annual anniversary of the battle, on September 10th, 2013.
Friday, 27 September 2013
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Battlefield Video released
Click here to see the Pinkie Cleugh video, in which Roger Knox relates the story of the battle of 1547, from viewpoints in today's landscape.
The battle exhibition is now open in Musselburgh Museum, Thursday - Saturday, 10:30 am - 4 pm, until 29 November.
The battle exhibition is now open in Musselburgh Museum, Thursday - Saturday, 10:30 am - 4 pm, until 29 November.
Pinkie Cleugh Battlefield Trail Opened Today
The newly-created Pinkie Cleugh Battlefield Trail received its first visitors today, when Roger Knox, the Chairman of the Pinkie Cleugh Battlefield Group guided a Walking Tour of the battlefield, under the auspices of East Lothian Archaeology & Local History fortnight.
The third interpretation board on the Trail is located on the Crookston Road footpath, giving an overview of the still open fields where the main encounter of the battle took place.
The battlefield walk concluded at the final location on the Trail, beside the Battlefield Memorial Stone, off Salter's Road. In this picture, members of the Old Musselburgh Club are viewing the fourth board on the Trail.
Alister Hadden, the President of the Old Musselburgh Club, together with Alastair Hare, leading the annual comemmoration ceremony for this historic battle.
Thursday, 29 August 2013
'Battle of Pinkie Cleugh -- Then & Now'
The new Exhibition in the Musselburgh Museum is open to the public from today.
Exhibits include copies and reproductions of contemporary eye-witness accounts and images, archaeological artefacts, and models of the battle terrain, weapons and equipment.
The Exhibition will be open Thursdays to Saturdays, 10:30 am - 4 pm until November 2013
Exhibits include copies and reproductions of contemporary eye-witness accounts and images, archaeological artefacts, and models of the battle terrain, weapons and equipment.
The Exhibition will be open Thursdays to Saturdays, 10:30 am - 4 pm until November 2013
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Pinkie Cleugh Exhibition
Musselburgh Museum will re-open on
29 August with a new exhibition entitled ‘The Battle of Pinkie
Cleugh: Then & Now’. The display is being set up by Pinkie
Cleugh Battlefield Group in connection with the new Battlefield
Trail, which is expected to be open in time for the annual
commemoration of the battle on 10 September.
The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, which
took place in the open country between Inveresk and Wallyford, was
the biggest and bloodiest battle ever fought in Scotland. It
occurred in 1547, and was the last battle between the separate
kingdoms of Scotland and England. Pinkie Cleugh marked the
culmination of Henry VIII’s effort, later called the ‘Rough
Wooing’, to coerce marriage between the two child sovereigns,
Edward VI of England and Mary, Queen of Scots. The immediate
outcome of the fighting was a disastrous defeat for the Scots –
more than 10,000 of whom were killed, compared with a few hundred
English dead. But when the war ended three years later, Scotland
remained free of English power – and Mary, in due time, married the
King of France. The two British kingdoms were peacefully united when
Mary’s son James VI inherited the English throne from Elizabeth I,
in 1603.
Roger Knox, the Chairman of Pinkie
Cleugh Battlefield Group, said:
‘Pinkie Cleugh was a decisive
turning point in Scottish history, but it remains surprisingly little
known. We hope that the four Battlefield Trail boards that we are
putting in place will encourage the local community and others to
visit the site of the battle, much of which can still be viewed as it
was almost 500 years ago.’
‘Our idea behind the Exhibition is
to use the accounts and images made by eyewitnesses of the battle,
combined with modern archaeological studies, to show that you can
still read the story of the battle in the landscape today.’
Items in the exhibition include a
copy – loaned by the National Library of Scotland – of a book,
published in London in 1548 by William Patten, with his day-by-day
diary of the invasion expedition, and a large number of bullets and
other battlefield artefacts recovered by archaeologists in recent
years.
Patten’s work includes a series of
woodcut plans of the battle, and there are images also in a
remarkable – but rarely seen – ‘roll map’ from the Bodleian
Library’s collection, which is reproduced in the show at full
scale. The painting is thought to be a copy, or more likely the
artist’s preparatory sketch, for a ceremonial painting honouring
the Duke of Somerset. It may have been intended for display in the
Duke’s new palace beside the Thames, which was then nearing
completion. The image constitutes a strip-cartoon, covering five
scenes from the conflict over three successive days. The artist has
included significant mapping detail from the coastal strip between
Prestonpans and Leith, and there is a detailed perspective view of
Leith itself, viewed from just offshore.
Also on display will be models of
the battlefield terrain – and of the English warship, known as the
‘Subtle Galley’, which fired the opening shots in the battle.
Costumes from the successful Queen Margaret University community
drama about the battle will be on show. A further staging of the
play is scheduled for 26 September in the Brunton Hall, Musselburgh.
From 29 August, the Exhibition will
be open in Musselburgh Museum – in Musselburgh High Street, near
the Tolbooth – on Thursday to Saturday from10:30 am to 4 pm.
The annual commemoration of the
battle by the Old Musselburgh Club will be held on 10 September at
1pm at the Memorial Stone site off Salter’s Road at the A1
junction.
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