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''' SCOTTISH BORDERS ''' (Area Council) | ''' SCOTTISH BORDERS ''' (Area Council) | ||
Additions : 1996 [[Borders]] regional council (1975 [[Berwickshire]], [[Peeblesshire]], [[ | Additions : 1996 [[Borders]] regional council (1975 [[Berwickshire]], [[Peeblesshire]], [[Roxburghshire]], [[Selkirkshire]]), Berwickshire (1975 [[Coldstream]], [[Duns]], [[Eyemouth]]), [[Ettrick and Lauderdale]] ([[Galashiels]], [[Lauder]], [[Melrose]], [[Selkirk]]), [[Roxburgh]] (1975 [[Hawick]], [[Jedburgh]], [[Kelso]]), [[Tweeddale]] (1975 [[Innerleithen]], [[Peebles]]) | ||
[[File:scottish.jpg|center]] | [[File:scottish.jpg|center|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | |||
Azure, a saltire Argent, surmounted at the fess point by an inescutcheon Gules, fimbriated Or, charged with four barrulets wavy Argent between in chief a salmon naiant and in base a ram's head cabossed Proper, a bordure counter-compony of the First and Second. | Azure, a saltire Argent, surmounted at the fess point by an inescutcheon Gules, fimbriated Or, charged with four barrulets wavy Argent between in chief a salmon naiant and in base a ram's head cabossed Proper, a bordure counter-compony of the First and Second. | ||
Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Area Council, videlicet:- issuant from a circlet eight paling piles (three and two halves visible) Or and eight garbs (four visible) of the Last, banded Sable; and on a Compartment below the Shield are set for Supporters, dexter, a Border knight Proper, wearing thigh boots Sable, spurred Or, a breast-plate and helmet Proper, girt with a sword, his dexter arm flexed at the elbow, the hand grasping a spear paleways also Proper, and sinister, a unicorn Argent, armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules, from which is pendant an oval badge Azure, fimbriated Or, charged with a saltire Argent. | Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Area Council, videlicet:- issuant from a circlet eight paling piles (three and two halves visible) Or and eight garbs (four visible) of the Last, banded Sable; and on a Compartment below the Shield are set for Supporters, dexter, a Border knight Proper, wearing thigh boots Sable, spurred Or, a breast-plate and helmet Proper, girt with a sword, his dexter arm flexed at the elbow, the hand grasping a spear paleways also Proper, and sinister, a unicorn Argent, armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules, from which is pendant an oval badge Azure, fimbriated Or, charged with a saltire Argent. | ||
===Origin/meaning=== | |||
The arms were officially granted on January 31, 1996. | The arms were officially granted on January 31, 1996. | ||