{"id":1684,"date":"2014-02-05T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","slug":"roxburghshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2014\/02\/05\/roxburghshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxburghshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Roxburghshire\"<\/p>\n

Roxburghshire is also known as Teviotdale i.e. the valley of the river Teviot. Its proposed flag from Philip Tebbitts,\u00a0includes a reference to this with a diagonal, wavy blue stripe, running from lower hoist to upper fly against a white field. This colour arrangement repeats that found in the arms of the county council<\/p>\n

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

It runs from the south-west to the north-east of the county so the flag mirrors the county\u2019s geography. The two black birds represent those from the seal<\/p>\n

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

of the original seat of the county, Roxburgh, long since destroyed. In Philip\u2019s flag, the birds are each\u00a0perched on a sabre, as appears in the local civic arms of the county,\u00a0recalling the area’s Border Reiver heritage. They are coloured black because the name of Roxburgh refers to Rook birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roxburghshire is also known as Teviotdale i.e. the valley of the river Teviot. Its proposed flag from Philip Tebbitts,\u00a0includes a reference to this with a diagonal, wavy blue stripe, running from lower hoist to upper fly against a white field. This colour arrangement repeats that … 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-1684","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\/1684","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=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}