Ellon

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ELLON

Burgh

Incorporated into: 1975 Gordon District Council (1996 Aberdeenshire Area Council)

Official blazon

Per fess Azure and Pean, three garbs Or.

Above the Shield is placed a coronet befitting a Burgh and in an Escrol below this Motto "Judge Nocht Quhill Ye End".

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on May 27, 1935.

Ellon was the ancient capital of Buchan in Pictish times and in the Middle Ages, under the Comyn Earls of Buchan, the centre of the civil and judicial life of the province. It was created a Burgh of Barony in 1707 in favour of David Erskine, 9th Earl of Buchan.

The arms are based on the device on the Burgh seal which originally showed the three garbs of the ancient Earldom of Buchan. The three garbs are coloured gold and set on a field, partly blue, for Buchan, and partly pean because it was decided in 1929 to make the background of the seal resemble a stubble field, thus rendering it non heraldic.
The use of a fur can also be said to recall the past glories of the Moot Hill at Ellon, since furs are specially associated with robes of state, and to denote dignity.

The motto comes partly from the "Judge Nocht" of the Erskine Earls of Buchan and from a translation of the French "Avise la Fin" used by the Kennedys of Kermucks, Hereditary Constables of Aberdeen, who were the Superiors of the Burgh for a time up to 1668.

Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s

The arms as used on a cigarette card, +/- 1910

Community Council

Official blazon

Per fess Azure and Pean, three garbs Or.

Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Community Council, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased from which are issuant four thistle leaves (one and two halves visible) and four pine cones (two visible) Or, and in an Escrol below the same this Motto "Judge Nocht Quhill Ye End".