Pile (heraldry) - Rare Variants

Rare Variants

Occasionally piles have more than one point, appear in large numbers, have their points truncated or ornamented, have their edges ornamented, or are charged with other piles.

• 726 Maintenance Battalion, USA: Gules (Crimson), in chief on a pile of four points or, two barrulets of the first, overall on a fess of the second, six fleurs-de-lis azure between two barrulets of the same.

• Christ Church Cathedral (Canada): Argent, a pile reversed entire truncated at chief or edged azure overall a cross gules surmounted by a cross wavy argent ...

• H R Stockdale Nursing College (South Africa): Azure, on a pile argent, the point couped, a fleur-de-lis sable, in base a cut diamond argent.

• Security Officers Board, RSA: Per pale or and gules, issuant from the partition twelve piles to sinister or, dexter a sword inverted sable.

• Janner (England): Paly of four vert and gules a pile terminating in a triangle interlaced with a triangle reversed between two piles each terminating in a fleur-de-lis argent.

• Paul (England): Azure, on each of three piles rayonny or, one issuing from the dexter and two from the sinister, a pile gules.

• Hunley (Canada): Azure, a pile reversed of ears of wheat or issuant from base and in chief two mullets also or.