Known as an Argive grip, it placed the handle at the edge of the shield, and was supported by a leather fastening ( for the forearm ) at the centre.

Heraldic courtoisie is observed: that is, charges in a composite shield ( or two shields displayed together ) usually turn to face the centre.

In the centre is a shield with a ship in full sail above a red field with three diagonal black lines.

The shield was incorporated into the centre of the fly half of a British Blue Ensign as the state ensign of the colony.

The well in the centre of the shield is a ' canting ' reference to Camberwell and the cinquefoils represent the Dulwich area of Camberwell, while the ship on the top left refers to the maritime history of Bermondsey and was part of the Rotherhithe insignia.

The first Canadian flag was that then used as the Flag of the Governor General of Canada, a Royal Union Flag with a shield in the centre bearing the quartered arms of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves.

The coat of arms is a shield with the image of Mount Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at the centre ; beneath it are two wavy blue lines representing the Adriatic Sea and local rivers, and above it are three six-pointed golden stars arranged in an inverted triangle which are taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Celje, the great Slovenian dynastic house of the late 14th and early 15th centuries.

The border frames the shield, and the centre field shows a complex scene incorporating a sunrise with rays, two fishing boats with crews, the sea with waves, and a large cod.

The 5p coin depicts the centre of the Royal shield, showing the meeting point of the four quarters.

The arms were Quarterly of nineteen, 1st, Azure, a lion barry Argent and Gules ( Landgrave of Thuringia ); 2nd, Gules, an escarbuncle Or and a shield at the centre point Argent ( Cleves ); 3rd, Or, a lion rampant Sable ( Meissen ); 4th, Or, a lion rampant Sable ( Jülich ); 5th, Argent, a lion rampant Gules crowned Azure ( Berg ); 6th, Azure, an eagle displayed Or ( Palatinate of Saxony ); 7th, Or, two pales Azure ( Landsberg ); 8th, Sable, an eagle displayed Or ( Palatinate of Thuringia ); 9th, Or, semé of hearts Gules a lion rampant Sable crowned of the second ( Orlamünde ); 10th, Argent, three bars Azure ( Eisenberg ); 11th, Azure, a lion passant per fess Or and Argent ( Tonna in Gleichen ); 12th, Argent, a rose Gules barbed and seeded Proper ( Burgraviate of Altenburg ); 13th, Gules plain ( Sovereign rights ); 14th, Argent, three beetles ' pincers Gules ( Engern ); 15th, Or a fess chequy Gules and Argent ( Marck ); 16th, Per pale, dexter, Gules, a column Argent crowned Or ( Roemhild ), sinister, Or, on a mount Vert, a cock Sable, wattled Gules ( Hannenberg ); 17th, Argent three chevronels Gules ( Ravensberg ); and over all an inescutcheon barry Or and Sable, a crown of rue ( or a crancelin ) in bend Vert ( Saxony ).

In a departure from the previous reigns the reverse featured a totally new design of a large crowned shield which bore the arms of France in the first quarter, of Scotland in the second quarter, of Ireland in the third quarter, and of England in the fourth quarter, the whole ensemble having a small shield in the centre bearing the rampant lion of Nassau ; the legend on the obverse read.

William's head faces right on his coins, with the legend, while the reverse design of William and Mary's reign was judged to be unsuccessful, so the design reverted to that used by Charles II and James II, but with a small shield with the lion of Nassau in the centre, with the legend.

After the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece in 1832, the new king, Otto, added the royal Coat of Arms ( a shield in his ancestral Bavarian pattern topped by a crown ) in the centre of the cross for military flags ( both land and sea versions ).

In a departure from the previous reigns the reverse featured a totally new design of a large crowned shield which bore the arms of France in the first quarter, of Scotland in the second quarter, of Ireland in the third quarter, and of England in the fourth quarter, the whole ensemble having a small shield in the centre bearing the rampant lion of Nassau ; the legend on the obverse read.

William's head faces right on his coins, with the legend, while the reverse design of William and Mary's reign was judged to be unsuccessful, so the design reverted to that used by Charles II and James II, but with a small shield with the lion of Nassau in the centre, with the legend.

In a departure from the previous reigns, the reverse featured a totally new design of a large crowned shield which bore the arms of imperial France in the first quarter, of Scotland in the second quarter, of Ireland in the third quarter, and of England in the fourth quarter, the whole ensemble having a small shield in the centre bearing the rampant lion of Nassau ; the legend on the obverse read ( Of " Magna Britannia " Great Britain, " Francia " France and " Hibernia " Ireland King and Queen ).

William's head faces right on his coins, with the legend, while the reverse design of William and Mary's reign was judged to be unsuccessful, so the design reverted to that used by Charles II and James II, but with a small shield with the lion of Nassau in the centre, with the legend.

In a departure from the previous reigns the reverse featured a totally new design of a large crowned shield which bore the arms of France in the first quarter, of Scotland in the second quarter, of Ireland in the third quarter, and of England in the fourth quarter, the whole ensemble having a small shield in the centre bearing the rampant lion of Nassau ; the legend on the obverse read.

William's head faces right on his coins, with the legend, while the reverse design of William and Mary's reign was judged to be unsuccessful, so the design reverted to that used by Charles II and James II, but with a small shield with the lion of Nassau in the centre, with the legend.

* Shield boss, the domed metal centre to a shield

Across the centre of the shield is a length of chain.

The bottom half of the borough's shield can be seen on this photo of Lewisham College's Tressillian Building, built 1927-31.

Silliman College's shield has a white background, three curving red lines emerging from near the bottom of the shield ( representing salamander tails ), and a green crossing bar containing three acorns.

In 2009 Halifax College changed its College Crest from its original blue and white shield to newer Crest derived from the Coat of Arms of Lord Halifax while maintaining the College's traditional colour.

* Abatement ( heraldry ), a modification of the shield or coat of arms that supposedly can be imposed by authority ( in England supposedly by the Court of Chivalry ) for misconduct

The coat of arms is two-tone, with the school's official colours, garnet and blue, on the shield.

On June 9, 1944 the trustees approved another coat of arms based on the shield part of the seal, this one by Canadian artist and designer Thoreau MacDonald.

One major difference between the Ramsay's family coat of arms and the university seal, is that while the Ramsay seal features a griffin and greyhound, the Dalhousie seal instead has two dragons supporting the eagle-adorned shield.

However, if one examines the few existing foreign sources about Denmark from the 13th to 15th centuries, it is apparent that, at least from foreign point of view ; the national symbol of Denmark was not a red-and-white banner but the royal coat of arms ( three blue lions on a golden shield.

The funerary enamel of Geoffrey ( died 1151 ), dressed in blue and gold and bearing his blue shield emblazoned with gold lions, is the first recorded depiction of a coat of arms.

The focus of modern heraldry is the armorial achievement, or the coat of arms, the central element of which is the escutcheon or shield.

In general, the shape of the shield employed in a coat of arms is irrelevant, because the fashion for the shield-shapes employed in heraldic art has changed through the centuries.

These specifications mostly occur in non-European contexts – such as the coat of arms of Nunavut and the former Republic of Bophuthatswana, with the arms of North Dakota ( as distinguished from its seal ) providing an even more unusual example, while the State of Connecticut specifies a " rococo " shield – but not completely, as the Scottish Public Register records an escutcheon of oval form for the Lanarkshire Master Plumbers ' and Domestic Engineers ' ( Employers ') Association, and a shield of square form for the Anglo Leasing organisation.

When Frederick I became Duke of Swabia in 1079, his coat of arms depicted a black lion on a gold shield.

Whilst members of the dynasty reigned over monarchies, and, eventually, the whole of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hohenstaufen coat of arms was used as a breast shield on the empire ’ s coat of arms.

The family coat of arms, first adopted in 1192, began as a simple shield quarterly sable and argent.

This shield uniformity was facilitated by the custom of separating the king's cattle into herds based on their coat colours.

With the recent election of Benedict XVI in 2005, his personal coat of arms eliminated the papal tiara ; a mitre with three horizontal lines is used in its place, with the pallium, a papal symbol of authority more ancient than the tiara, the use of which is also granted to metropolitan archbishops as a sign of communion with the See of Rome, was added underneath of the shield.

Above the heart appears a shield of the coat of arms of George Washington ( a white shield with two red bars and three red stars in chief ) between sprays of green leaves.

The sword is characterized by a hilt decorated with magical formulas, Christian symbols and floral patterns, as well as a narrow slit in the blade which holds a small shield with the coat of arms of Poland.

The Cross of St Cuthbert features as the principal charge on the coat of arms of the University of Durham, granted in 1843, blazoned Argent, a Cross of St Cuthbert Gules, on a canton Azure, a chevron Or, between three lions rampant of the first (' A red Cross of St Cuthbert on a silver shield with three little silver fighting lions around a gold chevron on a blue square in the top left-hand corner ').

It draws upon the coat of arms of the Wuffingas dynasty: three crowns in a blue shield, the colour of the Swedish flag, superimposed on a St. George's cross.

As Prince of Wales, Edward's coat of arms was the royal arms differenced by a label of three points argent, and an inescutcheon of the shield of Saxony, representing his father.

The Flag of Sussex is based on the coat of arms of Sussex | heraldic shield of Sussex which has been used to represent the county since at least as far back as 1622: Azure, six martlet s or

A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer.

The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement which consists of shield, supporters, crest and motto.