Clan Chattan Arms

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Hello Doc -- welcome to the forum

The helm is not a 'charge' but is described by Lord Lyon as 'suitable to an incorporation'. In an earlier take on the arms (last year) the helm was shown oversized to the shield -- one of the reasons for the delay in acknowledgment.

The Northern and Southern wings of the Clan Chattan are really geographical, but there is some symbolism in the Mackintosh assembly in the North and the Macpherson in the South. The Mackintoshes formerly had extensive lands in the South -- Badenoch and Lochaber -- and there were Macphersons in the North, of course.

Generally speaking, today we think of the Macphersons, Cattanachs, some Davidsons and Macintyres in the South, and Mackintoshes, Shaws, Macbeans, Macphails, Davidsons, Macandrews, Macqueens of Strathdearn, Macleans of Dochgarroch in the North. There is also an Eastern wing, descended of the Mackintoshes, including the Farquharsons, Macthomases and some Shaws and a Southern-Southern branch of the Mackintoshes in Perthshire.