Baton Abatement Small 283×320 Medium 566×640 Large 906×1024 Download Tiff Original 2123×2400 | (1.1 MB) Description "Or, a cross gules, over all a baton argent. BATON. BATUNE. BASTON. It is generally used as an abatement in coats of arms to denote illegitimacy." -Hall, 1862 Keywords abatement, argent, baston, baton, batune, coat of arms, cross, escutcheon, gules, heraldry, illegitimacy, OR, ordinary, shield Galleries Heraldry, Ordinaries Source: Hall, Arthur The Manual of Heraldry (London, England: J. S. Virtue & Co., 1862)