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Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Community Council, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased from which are issuant four thistle leaves (one and two halves visible) and four pine cones (two visible) Or. | Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Community Council, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased from which are issuant four thistle leaves (one and two halves visible) and four pine cones (two visible) Or. | ||
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The arms were granted on November 28, 1990. | The arms were granted on November 28, 1990. | ||
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PORTSOY
Burgh
Incorporated into : 1975 Banff and Buchan District Council (1996 Aberdeenshire Area Council)
Official blazon
Argent, a lion rampant guardant Gules, armed and langued Azure, holding between his paws a plumb-rule erect Proper.
(Above the Shield is placed a Burghal coronet.)
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on April 23, 1930.
Portsoy was created a Burgh of Barony in 1550 in favour of Sir Walter Ogilvy of Boyne.
The arms, which have the silver and red colours of Ogilvy, show a lion with a plumb-rule, which was the crest of Ogilvy, Earl of Findlater, who formerly owned the lands of Portsoy and whose castle, now a ruin, was built on a sea-girt rock, between Cullen and Portsoy, about 1455.
 Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s |
Community Council
Official blazon
Argent, a lion rampant guardant Gules, armed and langued Azure, holding between his paws a plumb-rule erect Proper.
Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Community Council, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased from which are issuant four thistle leaves (one and two halves visible) and four pine cones (two visible) Or.
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on November 28, 1990.
Those arms the arms of the former burgh with a different crown.
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Literature : Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974, 2001