✦ A ten-round heraldic challenge
Read the shield.
Match each illustrated shield to its blazon. The ten rounds test whether you can follow the field, figures, and relationships through to the drawing.
Study the shield carefullyRound 1 / 10
All illustrations are original classroom designs. No official bearings are reproduced.
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✦ Select the correct blazon
Can you read this?
Read the field first. Then the ordinary, followed by anything placed upon it.
Four possible descriptions. Only one fits the illustration.
The exercise checks how you read a design.
Each question uses an original, simplified shield and its corresponding introductory blazon. Once you are confident, continue to the formal language of blazon.