The horn that appears on the crest of Wirral dates back over 900 years.
It also features on the badges of clubs and organisations in the borough including Girlguiding Wirral.
Many might not know the story behind the historic symbol, but it is a tale of the old Earls and tolls on selling goods.
In 1120 the Earl of Chester - Randal de Meschines - granted the manors of Hooton, Storeton and Puddington to the chief forester of the Wirral forest Alan Sylvester.
In return, Sylvester had to carry out his duties as a forester and blow the horn at Glovershire in Chester on the morning of fair days.
It meant that all tolls on goods bought and sold belonged to the Earl for as far as the horn could be heard.
The horn and the forester duties passed down family lines for the years that followed until King Edward III took away the status of forest land in Wirral in the 1300s due to concerns over pirates lurking ready to scam and cheat the people of Chester and Wirral.
The Horn of Wirral was kept safe by the family of the last serving chief forester - The Stanleys.
In 1819 historian George Ormerod described the horn in his book 'History of Cheshire ', he said it was "slightly curved and tipped with brass at the smaller end; the colour varies from yellow to light brown and is spotted in shades of blue and black.
"It is nine inches and a half in circumference at the broad end, seven inches in the middle and two and a quarter at the brass tip.
"The extreme length is sixteen inches and three-quarters and the length across the curve thirteen and three-quarters."
The actual physical horn still exists - but is not in Wirral.
It is held by the fourth Earl of Cromer in his ancestral home in Somerset, despite campaigns over the years to have it returned to Wirral.
It did make a brief return home in 2008 for an exhibition at Birkenhead town hall.
