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''' | |[[File:Fortroseb.jpg|350 px|center|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
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Incorporated into: 1975 [[Sutherland]] District Council | <center>''' {{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}} '''</center><br> | ||
'''Country''' : | |||
* United Kingdom [[File:unitedkingdom-flag.gif|60 px|right]] | |||
** Scotland<br><br> | |||
'''Incorporated into''':<br> | |||
* 1975 [[Sutherland]] District Council | |||
** 1996 [[Highland]] Area Council | |||
'''Status''':<br> | |||
* (< 1975) Burgh | |||
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Per pale wavy: dexter, per fess embattled Vert and Azure, a barrulet embattled Or, between a rose Argent, barbed and seeded of the Third, in chief, and a stag's head cabossed also of the Third in base; sinister, Gules, a demi-lion rampant guardant Argent, mitred Or, issuant from a rose also Argent, barbed and seeded Vert. | Per pale wavy: dexter, per fess embattled Vert and Azure, a barrulet embattled Or, between a rose Argent, barbed and seeded of the Third, in chief, and a stag's head cabossed also of the Third in base; sinister, Gules, a demi-lion rampant guardant Argent, mitred Or, issuant from a rose also Argent, barbed and seeded Vert. | ||
Below the Shield, which is ensigned with a Burghal coronet, is placed upon a Compartment suitable to a Burgh Royal this Motto "From Age to Age Endure". | Below the Shield, which is ensigned with a Burghal coronet, is placed upon a Compartment suitable to a Burgh Royal this Motto "From Age to Age Endure". | ||
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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
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The motto was a local suggestion, chosen to indicate the long heritage of the Burgh and the fact that so many of its citizens bear the same surnames as those of the seventeenth century or earlier. | The motto was a local suggestion, chosen to indicate the long heritage of the Burgh and the fact that so many of its citizens bear the same surnames as those of the seventeenth century or earlier. | ||
The arms are now used by the [[Fortrose and Rosemarkie]] Community Council. | |||
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<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0> | |||
File:Fortroseseal.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Fortrose|Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s | |||
File:Fortrosepatch.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Fortrose|Souvenir patch, 1980 | |||
</gallery> | |||
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]: Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974 | |||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities F]] | [[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities F]] | ||
[[Category:Scotland]] | [[Category:Scotland]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1954]] | [[Category:Granted 1954]] | ||