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Though the pile issues from the top of the shield by default, it may be specified as issuing from any other part of the edge or as extending from edge to edge of the shield. Although it is not supposed to issue singly from the base, this rule is frequently ignored.
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Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, USA: Azure, on a pile reversed between four parachutes deployed in pile reversed, argent, a pick axe paleways, head upwards, sable, surmounted by two lightning bolts in bend, tenny, surmounted by a double
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726 Maintenance Battalion, USA: Gules (Crimson), in chief on a pile of four points or, two barrulets of the first, overall on a fess of the second, six fleurs-de-lis azure between two barrulets of the same.
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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
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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.
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Janner (England): Paly of four vert and gules a pile terminating in a triangle interlaced with a triangle reversed between two piles each terminating in a fleur-de-lis argent.
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Occasionally piles have more than one point, appear in large numbers, have their points truncated or ornamented, have their edges ornamented, or are charged with other piles.
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Per pile embowed inverted throughout gules, vert and argent; dexter a single share plough and sinister a garb, or, in base an anchor azure, cabled gules
213:) gules. If not so specified, the piles run parallel. (In early armory, whether or not the piles converged depended on the shape of the shield or flag.) 570: 160: 482:
H R Stockdale Nursing College (South Africa): Azure, on a pile argent, the point couped, a fleur-de-lis sable, in base a cut diamond argent.
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Security Officers Board, RSA: Per pale or and gules, issuant from the partition twelve piles to sinister or, dexter a sword inverted sable.
375:: 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. 827: 470:(Canada): Argent, a pile reversed entire truncated at chief or edged azure overall a cross gules surmounted by a cross wavy argent ... 1116: 1458: 518:
Paul (England): Azure, on each of three piles rayonny or, one issuing from the dexter and two from the sinister, a pile gules.
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Metropolitan Council (England): On a roundel azure three mural crowns conjoined in pile or, in base two barrulets argent.
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a crenelated torch of the first flamant of three of the third, and in base an Indian arrowhead point to base of the first.
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Per pale gules and vert; on a pile inverted embowed argent, between a plough and a garb Or, an anchor azure cabled gules
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The arms shown here, for the Elsenburg College of Agriculture, was blazoned by the South African Bureau of Heraldry as
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Pawlets (England): Sable, three swords in pile, points in base, argent, hilted gules, a crescent for difference.
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When a shield has more than one pile, and they are angled so that they touch at the base, they are described as
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Hunley (Canada): Azure, a pile reversed of ears of wheat or issuant from base and in chief two mullets also or.
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Mander (England): Gules, on a pile invected erminois three annulets interlaced two and one of the field.
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104th Infantry Regiment, USA: Per chevron enhanced argent and azure, in chief a cross gules, between
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district (Finland): Azure, a pile invected reversed, from which emerges a cross with 'arched' arms.
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An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland
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South African Bureau of Heraldry database (via National Archives of South Africa)
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district (Finland): Argent, on a pile issuant from sinister azure, a cuckoo Or.
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Non-traditional, regional, or rarely used (sometimes considered unheraldic)
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The arms of Jacques d'Étampes (1590–1668), Marshal of France, feature two
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A collection of charges in a converging arrangement may be blazoned as
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Arms of Dorosz (Canada): Paly sable and argent, a pile throughout
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Example of a standard pile, issuant from the chief, blazoned:
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The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada: Members' Roll of Arms
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Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage
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The Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada
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Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, Lord Lyon King of Arms:
803:David Reid of Robertland and Vivien Wilson : 2450: 147:sable. A pile can also issue from the sinister. 108:. See the arms of the Asper Foundation, Canada. 783:. The Heraldry Society of Canada, Ottawa, 2000 232:or; on a base enarched vert, fimbriated or, a 882: 74:believed that whenever piles issued from the 823:Heraldry Society of Scotland: civic heraldry 848:Armoria Patriae: State Arms in South Africa 818:Heraldry Society of Scotland: members' arms 172:pile issuing from the base in bend sinister 889: 875: 253:two issuant from the chief and one in base 713: 693:; but it could as easily be blazoned as 654: 311:, and may have any tincture or pattern. 22: 2451: 800:. Edinburgh: W. Green & Sons, 1903 650: 609:in bend sinister, wards to base sable. 870: 58:Variant positions and varying numbers 860:A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry 536:Other things 'in pile' or 'pilewise' 203:John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon 843:Civic Heraldry of England and Wales 13: 228:Borough Council (England): Sable; 14: 2470: 811: 580:: Sable, fifteen bezants in pile. 2424: 2090: 2058: 630: 614: 597: 585: 569: 553: 523: 511: 499: 487: 475: 460: 448: 438: 423: 407: 395: 380: 362: 347: 332: 316: 298: 279: 260: 241: 218: 195: 179: 152: 132: 113: 83: 251:(England): Gules, three piles, 732: 707: 188:issuant from the sinister base 46:usually counted as one of the 1: 807:. Lyon Office, Edinburgh 1977 805:An Ordinary of Arms, volume 2 700: 2181:(metal in the United States) 896: 788:A Complete Guide to Heraldry 7: 720:. T. 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Index

Pile

heraldry
charge
ordinaries
Nicholas Upton
chief
a pile reversed (or inverted or issuant from the base). If not drawn high enough, it can be confused with a division of the field per chevron. See the arms of the Asper Foundation, Canada.
division of the field
a pile throughout (or entire), reaching from one edge of the shield to the other. See arms of Tidd family, Canada.
Municipal arms of Bassecourt (Switzerland): Or, three piles issuing from dexter sable. A pile can also issue from the sinister.
Bassecourt
Arms of Kagg family  (Sweden): Azure, a pile issuing from the base in bend sinister Or.
Kagg family
sv
Arms of Dorosz (Canada): Paly sable and argent, a pile throughout issuant from the sinister base argent.
John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon: Or, three piles in point (or conjoined in base) gules. If not so specified, the piles run parallel. (In early armory, whether or not the piles converged depended on the shape of the shield or flag.)
John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon
High Peak Borough Council (England): Sable; three piles or; on a base enarched vert, fimbriated or, a fountain.
High Peak
fountain
Lancashire County Council (England): Gules, three piles, two issuant from the chief and one in base, or, each charged with a rose of the field, barbed and seeded proper.
Lancashire County Council
89th Cavalry Regiment, USA: Azure, semé of caltrops Argent, on a bend of the second an elongated inverted pile of the first. (The word elongated is not necessary.)
89th Cavalry Regiment
The arms of Jacques d'Étampes (1590–1668), Marshal of France, feature two piles in point issued from the base, or in chevron
ordinary
lines of variation
Cubitt, Baron Ashcombe: Chequy gules and Or, on a pile argent a lion's head sable.
Baron Ashcombe

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