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• At 2008.04.28 11:11, Dave Miller said:
  

  Top left is the coat of arms of Newcastle Uni, the one at the bottom is Durham Uni. No idea about the top right one though, but I suppose it could be the arms of Armstrong College (Newcastle Uni was a college of Durham until 1963) which was at least partly, a medical school. The 3 badges at the top of that shield look like Durham, the symbol of medicine (caduceus?) and a castle. It’s a guess.

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  • At 2011.02.20 15:06, John Silcock said:
    

    You’re correct - the top right is the medical school shield -n Motto: Scire Usum Medendi” - “to know the art of healing”

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• At 2008.04.28 19:31, B said:
  

  thanks cassandra for posting this and thanks Dave for the answer - I’ve often wondered!

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• At 2008.04.28 21:17, North East Forum said:
  

  I actually did a piece about this and was given 2 different answers by Newcastle University, but after some reasearch I found the same answer as Dave Miller.

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• At 2010.07.27 10:59, Peter Gore said:
  

  Actually, the Coat of arms on the right-hand side is the emblem originally adopted by the Durham University College of Medicine, shortly after it was formed in 1870, with the motto SCIRE USUM MEDENDI (’To know the art of healing’) and is clearly based on that of the University of Durham with the addition of a staff of Aesculapius (’snake and staff’), representing healing, and a castle, representing Newcastle upon Tyne, in the chief. After the College of Medicine was subsumed into King’s College in 1937 along with Armstrong College, the Medical School tended to continue to use shield that as its principal emblem.

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