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Wigtownshire, Scotland

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 27 February 2019

Description of the flag

Description of the flag

From https://britishcountyflags.com/2016/11/06/a-flag-for-wigtownshire/:

"The proposed flag for Wigtownshire is taken from the arms used by the former Wigtownshire County Council, where the design appears as a “chief”, the top section of the shield. This in turn was based upon the arms of the Dalrymple lords of Stair, who owned significant territory in the county. While all modern illustrations of the Wigtownshire County Council arms unequivocally display the saltire as black it seems plausible that this may have arisen from a mistaken understanding of original line drawings, where colours were indicated by “hatching”, that is a series of specific strokes of a pencil etc. to represent colours, when materials to depict those colours were not available. An intended navy blue colour may have been misinterpreted as black. Notwithstanding this possibly erroneous origin however, the dramatic and unique Wigtownshire arrangement of black and gold, saltire and diamonds makes a fine flag for the county.

Jason Saber, 24 October 2018

The reason for this supposition is that the Dalrymple arms are Or, on a saltire Azure nine lozenges of the first, where the arms used by the Wigtownshire County Council use sable, rather than azure.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 February 2019