{"id":1330,"date":"2014-01-28T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","slug":"surrey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2014\/01\/28\/surrey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clackmannanshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Clackmannanshire\"<\/p>\n

The proposed flag is the creation of Leonardo Piccioni, who was inspired by various elements used\u00a0in the arms of\u00a0local nobility.<\/p>\n

These include, the Erskine family, (Earls of Mar and Kellie)<\/p>\n

\"Erskine\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0and a red saltire on gold taken from the arms of Robert the Bruce<\/p>\n

\"Bruce\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One theory holds that the\u00a0name Clackmannan is\u00a0a corruption of the Gaelic ‘Chlach Mhannainn’, which means the Stone of ‘Mannan’ or ‘Manau’<\/i> , a sea god from local mythology –\u00a0Manau was also the ancient name of the district. Another\u00a0view\u00a0is that the name derives from a local legend\u00a0that Robert the Bruce left his gauntlet (mannan) on a rock (clack) in the locality, thus giving the area its name. The gauntlets and saltire in the arms awarded to Clackmannanshire County Council<\/p>\n

\"Clack<\/a><\/p>\n

refer to this legend. The green field in the chief, stands for agriculture.<\/p>\n

Thus\u00a0Leonardo\u2019s\u00a0proposal merges the green, white and black colour scheme found in the chief of the council arms with the saltire and gauntlets to create a flag composed of a white fimbriated black saltire on a green field with the left and right quadrants formed by the saltire each bearing a white gauntlet. The resulting flag\u00a0is a strong effective, design, clearly exhibiting locally meaningful and resonant themes. The county is also known as Strathdevon, meaning valley of the Devon River\u00a0which runs through the county\u00a0and Brady Ells points out that the proposed green, white and black flag\u00a0of Strathdevon\u00a0resembles the flag of Devon, also a cross design with the colours of\u00a0green, white and black!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The proposed flag is the creation of Leonardo Piccioni, who was inspired by various elements used\u00a0in the arms of\u00a0local nobility. These include, the Erskine family, (Earls of Mar and Kellie) \u00a0and a red saltire on gold taken from the arms of Robert the Bruce One … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-flags","category-proposed-flags-novel-designs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}