This is a fairly recent example (1921) but the coat of arms of University of
Wales Swansea contains a mining connection, indicating its technological
background and the extent to which it owed its creation to the efforts of
local industrialists. Within the shield it has a dragon for Wales, a book
for higher education and a hammer, a miner's pickaxe and an anchor to
represent the extractive and metallurgical industries and the maritime
interests of the area.
The examples on the webpages are too small to see but there is a slightly
larger version on our South Wales Coalfield Collection homepage at
http://www.swan.ac.uk/swcc/ We hold the grant of arms in the Archives.
Elisabeth Bennett
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Archivist
Library & Information Services
University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP
Tel: 01792 295021 (mornings)
Fax: 01792 295851
http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/historical_collections/archives.asp
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From: roger gosling [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 24 April 2003 15:30
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Subject: Mining tools / pictures in coats of arms of towns / cities /
districts
In the coat of arms for the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria, Germany,
a set of mining tools
is depicted.
See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amberg-Sulzbach
In the UK we are all probably aware of the 'Free miners logo', but I am not
sure that it is actually
incorporated in a coat of arms. The original of this is, I believe, the
brass in Newland Church
See http://theforestreunited.co.uk/forest4/localhistory.htm
Of course the freeminers logo has been used in various other guises for
example the freeminer
brewery and Clearwell Caves.
See http://website.lineone.net/~freeminer.brewery/ and
http://www.clearwellcaves.com/
But I am wondering about historic uses in coats of arms. How many other
instances of mining
connections are there in coats of arms?
Roger
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