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Regional Council : [[Borders]]<br>
Regional Council : [[Borders]]<br>
Additions : 1975 [[Hawick]], [[Jedburgh]], [[Kelso]]
Additions : 1975 [[Hawick]], [[Jedburgh]], [[Kelso]]<br>
Incorporated into : 1996 [[Scottish Borders]]
Incorporated into : 1996 [[Scottish Borders]]


[[File:roxburgh.jpg|center]]  
[[File:roxburgh.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]  


====Official blazon====  
===Official blazon===  
Azure, a unicorn saliant Argent, horned, maned and un­ guled Or, the tail tufted of the Last; on a chief of the Second a hunting horn Sable, stringed and viroled Gules, between two esquires' helmets of the field.
Azure, a unicorn saliant Argent, horned, maned and un­ guled Or, the tail tufted of the Last; on a chief of the Second a hunting horn Sable, stringed and viroled Gules, between two esquires' helmets of the field.


Above the Shield is placed a coronet appropriate to a statutory District, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased, from which are issuant eight thistle-heads (three and two halves visible) Or; and in an Escrol under the Shield this Motto "Ne Cede Malis Sed Contra Audentior Ito".
Above the Shield is placed a coronet appropriate to a statutory District, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased, from which are issuant eight thistle-heads (three and two halves visible) Or; and in an Escrol under the Shield this Motto "Ne Cede Malis Sed Contra Audentior Ito".


====Origin/meaning====
===Origin/meaning===
The arms were officially granted on May 6, 1975.
The arms were officially granted on May 6, 1975.


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[[Literature]] : Urquhart, 1979
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]:  
Urquhart, 1979


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ROXBURGH (District Council)

Regional Council : Borders
Additions : 1975 Hawick, Jedburgh, Kelso
Incorporated into : 1996 Scottish Borders

Coat of arms (crest) of Roxburgh

Official blazon

Azure, a unicorn saliant Argent, horned, maned and un­ guled Or, the tail tufted of the Last; on a chief of the Second a hunting horn Sable, stringed and viroled Gules, between two esquires' helmets of the field.

Above the Shield is placed a coronet appropriate to a statutory District, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased, from which are issuant eight thistle-heads (three and two halves visible) Or; and in an Escrol under the Shield this Motto "Ne Cede Malis Sed Contra Audentior Ito".

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on May 6, 1975.

The arms are those of the former county of Roxburghshire with a different crown and without the crest.


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