Grant Clan Crest – Sterling Silver Bonnet Badge

Hallmarked Inverness provincial silver by Fraser, Ferguson & McBean using the mark that was in use from 1900-1928 FF&M with the separate INVS mark - See Scottish Provincial silversmith and the their marks ( by Richard W. Turner )

MOTTO - Stand Fast ( Craigellachie )

BLAZON - A Burning Hill, All Ppr. ( Craigellachie - Rock of the alarm )

Size approx. 36mm x 42mm

Silver weight approx. 15gm

An image of a burning hill. (The burning hill represents "Craig Elachie", the rallying point for the Grants. When signal fires were lit upon the summit of Craig Elachie, or "The Rock of Alarm", members of the clan would gather there in order to organise for an attack or defence.)

One theory is that the ancestors of the chiefs of Clan Grant came to Scotland with the Normans to England where the name is found soon after the conquest of that country, although some historians have asserted that the Grants were part of the Siol Alpin group of families who descend from Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, first king of Scots. The first Grants to appear in Scotland are recorded in the 13th century when they acquired the lands of Stratherrick.