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 The arms were granted on December 18, 1894.
-Duns was created a Burgh of Barony in 1489 and became a Police Burgh in 1842.<br>
+Peebles was created a Royal Burgh around 1153. The arms already appear on a seal of which an impression is known from 1479. The three salmon also appear on the Town Cross, which is thought to date from 1320.
-The castle is Duns Castle, shown in the colours of two important families in the area, the Hay and Dunbar families. These are also represented in the bordure, with the roses of Dunbar and the escutcheons of Hay. The canton with the red cushion is taken from the arms of Randolph, Earl of Moray, to whom the lands of Duns were given in 1314.  The motto &quot;Duns Dings a&quot; is from when an English raiding army was frightened off by the locals who had made big rattles from cow hides filled with stones. These they shook to make a loud noise or "ding" and the English army horses bolted! The "a'" bit means all!
-The arms were based on the seal of 1892, which already showed the castle, bordure and free canton. The bordure now only showed the roses of the Dunbar family. As a crest an arm with a sword and as motto 'Invictus' were used. These both refer again to the above mentioned raiding party.
+The salmon recall the many salmon in the river Tweed, on which the Burgh stands; their arrangement on the shield refers to the habit of the fish
+travelling upstream from the sea to spawn and implies that for every salmon swimming up river, two return to the sea. The red colour has been used for centuries, but the meaning is not known.
+The Latin motto means "Increase by swimming against (the stream)".
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