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[tmcd at panix.com]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Alasdair MacEogan <alasdair at bmhanson.net> wrote:
> Being that it is an annulet then it is correct.  An annulet is round
> no matter what shape the field.

A moderately reliable source on armory, like the Pic Dic (in full, _A
Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry // As Used in the Society for
Creative Anachronism_, 2nd ed., Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme and
Akagawa Yoshio), is a great help to the armorist.

    Annulet -- An annulet is a plain ring; it is one of the most
    ancient of charges, c. 1244, and was sometimes called a "false
    [voided] roundel" in the earliest blazons. ...

The illustration shows a plain ring, a disk with a smaller disk-shaped
hole in the center.  Even though the illustration is a "heater
shield", it's still shaped like a ring.

An illustration may be seen at upper left
    http://www.sca.org/heraldry/primer/geometrics.html
Note that it's circular, even on a "heater shield".

Danyll Lincoln
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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com