Pile (heraldry) - Variant Forms

Variant Forms

Like any ordinary, a pile may have other charges on it, may have its edges ornamented by any of the lines of variation, and may have any tincture or pattern.

• Cubitt, Baron Ashcombe: Chequy gules and Or, on a pile argent a lion's head sable.

• Suomenniemi district (Finland): Argent, on a pile issuant from sinister azure, a cuckoo Or.

• Töysä district (Finland): Azure, a pile invected reversed, from which emerges a cross with 'arched' arms.

• USS Ramage: Azure, on a pile indented Gules fimbriated Argent, a trident head of the like surmounted by a mullet of five points one point to base Or.

• Lydney Rural District Council (abolished 1974): Argent, on a pile wavy throughout vert, a stag's head caboshed, between the attires a port between two towers, or; on a chief sable three crosses formy or.

• Mander (England): Gules, on a pile invected erminois three annulets interlaced two and one of the field.

• Rhyl Town Council (Wales): Tenny, a pile barruly wavy argent and azure, over all a fish weir sable, staked gules, in fess between a lymphad sail set, pennon and flags flying, gules, and in base a salmon naiant proper.

• Yukon Territory (Canada): Azure, on a pallet wavy argent a like pallet azure, issuant from the base, two piles reversed gules, edged argent, each charged with two bezants in pale; on a chief argent, a cross gules, surmounted of a roundel vair.