Talk:Barony of Caer Anterth Mawr

Heraldry

To explain the two blazons: the blazon submitted in 1980 was "Azure, a tower between three mullets all argent, in base a triple mount proper charged with a laurel wreath Or." Laurel rewrote it as "Azure, issuant from a hill proper a tower between in cross three mullets argent and a laurel wreath Or." -- adding "Note: A hill is a triple mount. A hill proper is grass covered, and therefore green. The normal prohibition against green proper charges upon blue, and visa versa still stands. As a reward for their excellent documentation on mounts proper I am granting a specific exception to the rule...." [1] (There appeared to have been some confusion among later readers of that blazon, who had not seen the LOAR's note about a hill being a triple mount, and had not seen that artwork, and who thereafter drew the hill as a single mount. Also, artists varied in their placements of the stars/mullets, not always putting the tower "between" the stars so much as "below" it, which would seem unbefitting the name Caer Anterth "Castle of the Zenith / Stronghold of the Heights".) A desire to reduce the number of metals in the arms and thus turn the wreath silver, plus possibly a belief that the "hill" needed to be blazoned more clearly, led to the revised registration in October 1991: "Azure, a tower between three mullets one and two argent and issuant from a trimount vert charged with a laurel wreath argent." Despite all the wording changes, the wreath tincture was the only detail altered thereby. I have updated the arms image accordingly with a copy derived from the originally registered artwork. -- Raven (talk) 22:51, 22 February 2016 (AEDT)