[QUOTE] Isn't the technical term 'rampant'?[/QUOTE] No - that just means it's up on it's back legs. [URL]http://heraldry.sca.org/primer/quadrupeds.html[/URL] (Mind you they missed a few out like 'vulned' - ie wounded.) "A bull argent, vulned, piercee, gutee de sang" (part of the decription of the Launce family crest that (I'm assured - probably wrongly) that my family descends from). Which equates to: "a silver bull, wounded and with a hole that shows the background colour, spattered with blood" There isn't (as far as I know) a heraldic term for a beast mounted.. Phil.