 The seax appears in the heraldry of the English counties of Essex and Middlesex, each of which bears three seaxes in their ceremonial emblem, or rather the Tudor heralds' idea of what a seax looked like, portrayed in each case like a falchion or scimitar.The names 'Middlesex', 'Essex', 'Sussex' and 'Wessex', contain the name 'Seaxe'.There were settlements in the area of Middlesex that can be traced back thousands of years before the creation of a county.