IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17720 accession number: HEN.M.3C-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Breastplate with associated skirt, for light field use, decorated with bands in the 'black and white' fashion. Formed of main plate with moveable gussets at the arm-openings and an associated skirt of two lames. The medially-ridged main plate dips down to the centre of the waist, and projects forward over the belly. The gussets and the broad, shallow neck-opening have bold, file-roped, inward turns. Secured by a single externally-flush rivet within the upper end of each gusset is a double-ended, tongued iron buckle to receive the shoulder-strap of a backplate. The lower edge of the breastplate is flanged outwards to receive a skirt of two upward overlapping lames. The lames are attached to one another and to the breastplate at their outer ends by modern round-headed rivets with octagonal or square internal washers. The lower edge of the second lame of the skirt is cut with a shallow arch over the crotch. The arch has a file-roped inward turn. The lame is pierced over the arch with a possibly modern hole for the attachment of a cod-piece. Riveted at each side of the second lame is a modern strap for the suspension of tassets. A third strap may at some time have existed between them, but is now represented only by a plugged hole. Vacant rivet holes, representing former articulation-points, exist at the upper corners of the first lame of the skirt. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.3A-E-1933 title: breastplate (body armour) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17720 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of main plate with movable gussets at the arm-openings and an associated skirt of two lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, with banded decoration in 'black and white' fashion with medially-ridged vertical bands hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1570 - 1580 creation date earliest: 1570 creation date latest: 1580 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 19 dimension: Height units: cm value: 48 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 3.34 dimension: Width units: cm value: 43