Gate (Period)

Gateway (Disallowed)

A gate is an entrance in a fence or wall; it usually swings on hinges.  The default heraldic gate is a “corral gate”, sometimes called a “field-gate” or “farm-gate”; this is sometimes explicitly blazoned.  The gate is drawn as a barred wooden frame, not solid like a door.  It’s found in the arms of von Haxthausen, 1605 [Siebmacher 186].  The gate’s “proper” coloration, as with all wooden charges, is brown.

There is also the “gateway”, two huge doors hinged on towers; the charge is unique to Society armory, and is no longer permitted.  See also door, drawbridge, portcullis.

The Shire of Caversgate bears:  Sable, a gate within and conjoined to a stone archway within a laurel wreath Or.

Eric of Coppergate bears:  Argent, a farm gate within an orle engrailed gules.