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CUMBERLAND CHALLENGE SHIELD. 
Won by Burgh-by-Sands Elementary School in the Bird and Tree 
(Arbor) County Competition, inaugurated in Cumberland by 
the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in 1904. 
The Cumberland Shield was given by the Rev. Canon Rawnsley, of Keswick. 
The design is by Mrs. Rawnsley, and was executed at the Keswick School 
of Industrial Arts by Tom Sparks. The Shield is made of sterling silver, and 
bears for its chief ornament a rose tree, as emblematical of Cumberland, the 
rose appearing both on the County and the Bishop’s seal, but chiefly as being 
the English flower par excellence , the joy of English hedgerows, and the 
flower of chivalry. From the tree hangs a shield of enamelled colour with 
the County seal or cognisance. Upon the hollowed rim of the Shield, on 
little raised entablatures, are birds specially connected with Cumberland, and 
which ought to be preserved,—the buzzard, the raven, the dotterel, the black¬ 
headed gull, the barn owl, and the horned owl. 
HOLDERS OF COUNTY CHALLENGE SHIELDS, 1904-5: 
Berkshire. —Girls’ National School, Buckland, Farringdon. 
Hampshire.— Girls’ School, Bitterne Park, Southampton. 
[Winner of Second Place, with accompanying awards : National (Boys’) 
School, Sandown, Isle of Wight.] 
Westmorland.— National School, Warcop. 
Bedfordshire.— Girls’ School, Sandy. 
Cumberland.— Burgh-by-Sands. 
Public Elementary Schools in the above-named Counties , and also in 
Somersetshire, are invited to compete in 1905. 
