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English: The Coat of arms of Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council, the local government authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, in Tyne and Wear, England. The blazon is: ARMS: Or a Chief Azure overall five Pallets counterchanged. CREST: Issuant from a Mural Crown Azure a Circular Blade of a Plough proper dimidiating an Annulet embattled on the outer edge Or containing two Fusils conjoined palewise Sable; Mantled Azure doubled Or. SUPPORTERS: On the dexter side a Horse Sable unguled and maned Or supporting a Length of Rail Argent and on the sinister side a Male Griffin Sable armed and membered Or holding in the sinister foreclaw a Thunderbolt Or.
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