Ruins

Ruins

Ruins: this singular device is rare in English arms. In French heraldry the word "masure" is used to signify in ruins, and the device is more frequent. Decouverte also is used of a building with its roof destroyed.

Or, a lion rampant couped in all the joints of the first within a bordure embattled gules--MAITLAND, Dundrennan, co. Kircudbright, quartering argent the ruins of an old abbey on a piece of ground proper.