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image by Tomislav Šipek, 01 February 2016
image by Tomislav Šipek, 04 February 2016
Here is flag and coat of arms of Ås.
Sources:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1982-07-23-1247?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 01 February 2016
Thanks to Željko, here is second (possible) variant of flag of Ås.
Tomislav Šipek, 04 February 2016
image by Tomislav Šipek, 01 February 2016
Blazon: I rødt tre sølv spissruter, to over en. In English: Gules three
lozenges argent two over one.
Approved by the royal resolution of 23 July 1982 after a drawing by Truls
Nygaard, after an idea by the Ås history society and municipal culture
department. [c2j87]
The three lozenges are also interpreted to stand for the three parishes in the
municipality: Ås, Nordby and Kroer.
The
municipal web site recounts that the design was originally made by Aase
Weydahl-Ottesen, showing the so called Nøstvet axes - a stone age tools some
7000 years old, found it 1879 at Sjøskogen near the farm after which they are
called. The State Archives rejected the design, but suggested that lozenges may
be used to symbolically represent the axes. The design signed with Aa.W.O. was
approved in the State Archives in June 1981, and then Nygaard finalized the
drawings and prepared a flag and seal designs. The document above also shows
drawings of the actual axes, same one as depicted in [c2j87]
This document shows the original approved design, although unsigned (apparently
by Nygaard, who was probably reluctant to claim it for its own, as he simply
redrew them), and here is
his mayor's seal signed "T.N.81"
The
rules for use of the coat of arms and the flag state that the flag is to be
in rectangular or square format (not helping us much :)
Željko Heimer, 03 February 2016