What was abolished in    The article says From  until its abolition in  the crown together with the sword and sceptre appeared on the coat of arms of the Scottish county of Kincardineshire where they were all kept hidden in the th century during the Civil War Here the it in its abolition seems to refer to the crown but I gather the Crown of Scotland has never been abolished  I suspect it was the county of Kincardineshire that was abolished in  In any case the sentence needs to be rewritten by some knowledgeable editor to remove the incorrect suggestion that the crown was abolished in  and to add a citation to some reliable source