Copper alloy, 10.95 grams; 56.03 mm. Circa 13th - 15th Century A.D. A tapered sword scabbard chape, it is engraved with a heater shaped shield divided into eight segments [Gyronny] with hatched [tincture] decoration indicating Red [gules] and silver [argent]. Probably the mysterious arms of a member of the" Vedenmeton" family, clearly a branch of the Campbells, but otherwise obscure. It was the fact that the contemporary Sir Duncan Campbell, second son of Sir Colin, first of Ardkinglass, and ancestor of the Ardentinny line, was a Knight of Malta. The only other reference we can find to these arms is in St. Andrew's Church, Droitwich, which has in the upper lights of the east window of the north chapel, some pieces of heraldic glass, one of which, a shield, Gyronny gules and argent. Fragmentary otherwise Very Fine Condition.

Gyronny - Equally angled wedge shaped areas meet at a central point. Party per saltire and Quarterly can be thought of as being special cases of gyronny, for in each of them, four wedge shaped areas meet at the centre of the flag or shield. There are few flags which could be otherwise described as gyronny, although the state flag of Arizona, the Japanese ensign and the Dutch jack all have gyronny features. Gyronny (gi'-ron-ny) is described in heraldry as a field divided into gyrons, generally eight sections. When more than eight, the number must be specified. For example: Bassing - bourne - "Gyronny of 12, or and azure."