- stag

STAG or Hart, cumbent, or Lodged in a Park-paled. P. 28, f. 55. (ELVN)

STAG and Stag’s head are common bearings in coat armour.

               The Stag is blazoned at Gaze, Tripping, Springing, Courant, (or in full course) Browsing and Lodged. See P. 28, f. 43 to 48. And when the head is cut off, showing no part of the neck, and placed full faced, it is termed Cabossed. f. 52. But when the neck is shown with the head, and full faced, it is termed a stag’s head and neck Affrontee, couped or erased at the neck. If shown in profile, it is blazoned a stag’s head couped, or erased, the profile being understood, f. 49 and 50. When the horns (antlers) and hoofs are of a different tincture, it is said to be Attired and Unguled. If the antlers have more than five projections on each, it is blazoned attired with so many (mentioning the number) tynes. (ELVN)