Nonetheless, no device borne by any Somerset body depicts a two legged wyvern, as can be seen in the selection following, below. Dragons were a persistent cultural theme long associated with Somerset. The flag has subsequently become very popular, by residents, businesses and local organisations, and has been proudly raise over the tents at the Glastonbury music festival. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! This flag was known as the “Yellow Dragon Flag” and was used until the monarchy was overthrown. Somerset folk however have clearly felt that their entitlement to these arms was greater!

There could be no more meaningful emblem for the county.

The Chinese flag is red with a large gold five-pointed star in the top-left of the flag and four smaller five-pointed gold stars to the right of the big star. The earliest Chinese flag was used in 1644 during the Qing dynasty. Again, it is not the registered flag of the county of Somerset.

With such a trenchant, dragon filled heritage, reflected in the many dracontine depictions located around the county. The badge is presumably based on the original, unofficial form of the council arms but in the revised colours. Bearing in mind that the standards in use at this time were “windsocks” that is, not actual flags but serpentine in form, with small wings and “vestigial” limbs as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry and previous example, a two legged “wyvern” illustration is likely to be a more faithful representation of the actual form of standard used in this era. In 1990, a set of rules were created by the Seventh National People’s Congress setting out guidelines for how the flag should look, how it should be flown and where it can be flown. There are only 2 national flags depicting a dragon: Bhutan - white dragon on a yellow and orange background and, Wales - red drangon on white and green background. In addition, the dragon was illustrated grasping a blue mace as a symbol of the council’s authority, as found in this stained glass window at St.Andrews church, Banwell.

The Red Dragon itself can be dated back to the Roman occupation of Britain or Arthurian Legend.

Sometimes the images resemble dragons.

Union Jack: A History of the British Flag – Professor Nick Groom, 2007. a red dragon on a yellow background but obviously minus the blue mace, was the logical choice. In his 1982 article “The Dragon Of Wessex” in local history periodical “Earth Giant”, Jeremy Harte describes how the Byzantine successors of Rome also made use of dracontine standards and that the practice was taken up by western armies such as that of Charlemagne. The county cricket club had meanwhile also adopted the county’s unequivocally recognised dragon emblem for its badge, as featured on its 1890/1891 year book cover, as had the West Somerset Yeomanry, from the turn of the twentieth century, whose badge, as seen in here in a coloured depiction, significantly depicted a red, dragon on a gold, field. sent by Somerset resident Adam Thomas, in March 2013, to the Somerset County Gazette in response to the paper’s report about local law firm Pardoes flying the aforementioned poorly designed mace and dragon design. not a wyvern!) Legends tell of; John Aller, said to have slain a dragon and then succumbed to its poisonous breath or its fiery blood – a bare patch of earth is said to mark this spot; of Carantoc who persuaded a dragon who had been terrorising a village to depart, bowing its head in submission;  of Blue Ben, who, whilst cooling himself in the sea, became stuck on the muddy shoreline and drowned when the tide came in – this tale was inspired by the discovered fossil skull of an Ichthyosaur. The cause was taken up again a few years later. This flag was known as the “Yellow Dragon Flag” and was used until the monarchy was overthrown. as appears on the council’s coat of arms, outside its County Hall headquarters in Taunton, the dragon flag that now represents the county of Somerset can be seen as highly appropriate and meaningful. As with any coat of arms, Somerset Council’s arms have been occasionally realised as an armorial banner, this is one such realisation.

The flag is quartered per saltire yellow the top, red at the fly, green at the bottom, black at the hoist. Such items were based in turn on Celtic use of a dragon symbol, which ultimately derived from the Draco symbol used by the military during the Roman occupation of Britain. As the national flag of Wales, the red dragon appears to have regained popularity in the early part of the twentieth century, when it was used for the 1911 Caernarfon Investiture of Edward, Prince of Wales.

Impressed, the Romans adopted the same emblem after the Emperor Trajan’s conquest of Dacia, becoming the standard of the cohort or “draco” (a word derived from the Greek “drakon”) ten of which formed a legion.

This concluded that “The county of Somerset, having formed part of the Kingdom of Wessex, was fully entitled to display the arms of that principality.. (“principality” is used here in a figurative or poetic sense)… Somerset folk everywhere may regard themselves to-day as under the banner of the Dragon of Wessex, even as their forebears in the days of Alfred flocked to this Royal ensign. The green and white stripes of the flag were additions of Henry VII, the first Tudor king, representing the colours of his standard. although the dragon’s claws appear to be clenched, indicating it may once have been grasping something…was an original council mace removed in recent years perhaps? Y Ddraig Goch (The Red Dragon) has officially been the flag of Wales since 1959, though the principality being represented by a dragon dates back to 830. Although obviously sprung from a common source, a clear distinction between the flag of the wider region of Wessex as a golden wyvern on a red background and the emblem of the county of Somerset as a red dragon on a gold (yellow) background had been drawn. This flag featured a blue background with a large white sun positioned directly in the center. Heraldic historian CW Scott-Giles refers to Celtic writers’ descriptions of the dragon as “ruddy-gold” – a description that seems open to interpretation as either more gold or more red. Coinage from the second century BC bears serpent images some of which resemble dragons, while scabbards from approximately 300 BC are decorated by pairs of dragons. Uther Pendragon is said to have seen two golden dragons in the sky, as accounted by the mediaeval writer Geoffrey of Monmouth, which he took as an omen of success in attaining the kingship. It was notably decorated at each of the four corners with a silver sculpture of a dragon rampant. The years ahead saw multiple designs, many of which were rejected. The plan was for Ed to work with local organisations to secure support for registration of this traditional flag, a process that had been formerly successful in Westmorland, Cumberland and Cheshire. in the middle. He stated at the time that “A lot of people are not happy about this post-Avon limbo and long for Somerset to be reunited.” Ed pointed out that the Somerset Council’s mace bearing dragon was popularly flown across the county. This duly appeared on a Facebook page as the public face of the campaign. These examples demonstrate the county’s adoption of an unambiguous dragon emblem, in that several different county based organisations had opted for one. Bear in mind also that “flying serpent” was an early mediaeval term for a dragon. In the former the shield is supported by two golden dragons, in the latter, the shield bears a red dragon in the canton, both in token of the ancient kingdom of Wessex, of which they were both a part. The “Somerset Rebels” speedway team has also adopted a badge featuring the dragon from the county flag, And in late 2019 Somerset Cricket Club replaced its own dragon badge with a new realisation that better matched the form of the dragon on the county flag. Archaeological finds demonstrate that the ancient Celts in Britain practised serpent worship. And although Owain Glyndwr raised the dragon standard in 1400 as a symbol of revolt against the English Crown, the dragon was brought to England by the House of Tudor, the Welsh dynasty that held the English throne from 1485 to 1603. Scott-Giles 1933, 1953. Adam pointed out how inappropriate this was.



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