Clan badge
A clan badge, sometimes plant badge, is a badge ( engl: "badge " ) or symbol ( usually a small branch of a specific plant), which is used to identify a clan member of a particular Scottish clan. Worn they are usually on a beret -like cap behind the respective crest badge, or attached to the shoulder of the tartan sash of a woman. According to a widespread tradition clan badges were used to identify clan members during battle can. For example, small oat branches were used as recognition by the troops of General Montrose during the sack of Aberdeen. The Jacobites used, for example, the "White Cockade " ( engl: "White Cockade ").