Coat of arms of Mark
Mark’s arms place a gold pale bearing four black roundels on a black field, between a gold ear of grain and a gold weaving shuttle.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I svart fält en stolpe av guld belagd med fyra svarta rundlar och åtföljd till dexter av ett sädesax av guld och åtföljd till sinister av en skottspole av guld.
Mark Municipality publishes its own verbal description of the arms, which is the source for this editorial text. The automatically assembled Heraldica wording is separate registry information.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 23 August 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The municipality’s published description
Mark Municipality’s document describes the arms as a gold pale bearing four black roundels on a black field, accompanied on the right by a gold ear of grain and on the left by a gold weaving shuttle. The directions follow the municipality’s heraldic wording.
Source: Marks kommun: Kommunvapen
The municipality’s explanation of the charges
The municipality says the roundels hark back to the 16th-century seal of Mark Hundred, which gave the new municipality its name. The shuttle comes from the arms of Kinna market town and symbolizes the textile industry; the ear of grain represents agriculture. These are the explanations given in the municipal document.
Source: Marks kommun: Kommunvapen
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- pale
- field
- Or
- Sable
- indeterminable tincture
- ear
- pellet
- shuttle
- four
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
