Thanks to JT for responding to my post about Earl Roger of Montgomery, the original Norman overlord of Shrewsbury. I was mulling there over the theory that the gold & blue colouring in the loggerheads might have come from Earl Roger's shield of arms (even though if he had a set of arms, I couldn't find them).
JT pointed me in the direction of the 17th century map made by John Speed, a copy of which is to be found in the Civil War Room at Shrewsbury Museum. Speed clearly has Roger's colours as gold & blue.
However, as Speed lived five hundred years after Roger, he may have just been responding to a 'folk tradition'.
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