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The Northumberland flag is the flag of the county of Northumberland. It is a banner of the arms of Northumberland County Council. The shield of arms is in turn based on the arms medieval heralds had attributed to the Kingdom of Bernicia (which the first County Council used until it received a regular grant of arms). The Bernician arms were fictional but inspired by Bede's brief description of a flag used on the tomb of St Oswald in the 7th century.〔Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', Book III, Ch. 11: "And to furnish a lasting memorial of the royal saint, they hung the King's banner of purple and gold over his tomb."〕 The current arms were granted to the county council in 1951, and adopted as the flag of the modern day county of Northumberland in 1995. A spokesman for the County Council reiterated this position in a letter to the local newspaper ''The Journal'' in 2000: "the Northumberland flag should only be rightfully flown within the present administrative County of Northumberland (e.g. not Newcastle or Whitley Bay)". When flying, the top corner, nearest the flagpole, should be gold. ==Flag design== The pantone colours for the flag are: *Red 485 *Yellow 109 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flag of Northumberland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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