Inverkeithing
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The arms were granted to the Burgh on December 29, 1930 and to the Community Council on on September 18, 1981.
Inverkeithing seems to have been created a Royal Burgh by King Malcolm IV between 1153 and 1162.
The arms are taken from the obverse and reverse of the oldest known Burgh seal of which impressions dated 1296 and 1357 are on record.
The dexter side in the red and gold colours of Fife shows a ship, with crenellated prow and a cross at its masthead, thus recalling "the passage and ship of lnverkeithing" granted by King David I to the monks of Dunfermline in 1129; the red, gold and silver colours also allude to Scrymgeour, Lord Inverkeithing and Earl of Dundee.
The sinister side shows St. Peter, patron saint of the Burgh, holding his keys and a model of the parish church. The blue field and the gold of the Saint's halo could refer to the special connection the town had, through its ferry, with the shrine of St. Margaret at Dunfermline.
The community council uses the Burgh arms, but with the crown of a community council.
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Literature: Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974, 2001
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