Lightning Bolt

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Illustrations:

Period source/s:

An Ordinary of Siebmacher's Wappenbuch -// http:www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/heraldry/siebmacher/f-siebmacher.html

Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):

• [[1]]

Illustration/s from Brickbat's Armorial Stash - [[2]]:

Pennsic Traceable Art Project:

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#x--Precedents:‍Precedents:

Roiberd Mor Barra. Device. Barry vert and Or, on a pile plain cotised on the outer edge dovetailed sable issuant to base from a cloud argent a lightning flash Or . The lightning flash has been a disallowed change since August 1983 barring any evidence that such a depiction was used in period. We currently allow a lightning bolt// . This is a thin line with arrows at both ends, with a square zigzag pattern (like the edge of an embattled ordinary.) However, even the lightning bolt was not found in period except as part of a //thunderbolt , a more complex charged used in classical Roman insignia. We recommend that the submitter use a thunderbolt. Additionally, we know of no examples of cotising where only one side of the cotises have a special line of division. We recommend that if the submitter wants cotises, he should use either plain cotises or one of the forms found in period; for example, the Pictorial Dictionary notes that a bend plain cotised dancetty was found c. 1422. (05/2000)

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In the Ordinary:

(includes flash)

• Lightning - see [bolt]
• [bolt]
• Lightning flash - see [bolt]