Symbols or representations of St. James the Greater:
•key
•pilgrim with wallet and staff
•pilgrim's hat
•pilgrim's staff
•sWord
•cloak
•cockle shell
•dark-bearded man holding a book
•dark-bearded man holding a sWord
•dark-bearded man holding a scroll
•dark-bearded man with a floppy pilgrim's hat, long staff, water bottle, and scallop shell
•elderly, bearded man wearing a hat with a scallop shell
•long cape
•main mounted on horseback, trampling a Moor
•man holding the long staff of a pilgrim from which a wallet or gourd of water is suspended
•man with a thin beard, and the hair parted in the middle and flowing down on each side
•man with shells around him
•pilgrim of Compostella
•scallop shell
•scallop shell on his flapped hat
•scallop shell on his shoulder
The scallop shell, or a group of three of them, is the most common symbol.
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