IDENTIFIERS
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id:	17807
accession number:	HEN.M.11D-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 8 January 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Backplate with skirt, for field use. Formed of a main plate, weakly shaped to the shoulder-blades, and a skirt of one lame.  The nearly straight neck-opening and the arm-openings of the main plate have file-roped inward turns accompanied by a recessed border.  Attached by a pair of externally-flush rivets within each of the upper corners of the main plate is a modern, buff leather shoulder-strap with a bifurcated proximal end.  Attached by a round-headed rivet with a circular external rosette washer and a circular, internal washer at each side of the waist is a modern leather strap that serves as a waist-belt.  The rosette washers are decorated with punched hatching.  The left strap terminates in a modern double-ended, tongued, iron buckle with a rounded hasp secured by a single round-headed rivet.  The buckle has a rectangular distal loop and a D-shaped proximal loop decorated with file-roping.  A later hole pierced at the centre of the upper border of the main plate has subsequently been plugged with an externally-flush rivet.  Later wiring-holes are pierced at the centre of the waist and the lower end of each arm-opening.  The lower edge of the main plate is flanged outwards to receive the skirt of one lame.  The upper edge of the lame is decorated with a pair of modern incised lines.  Its nearly straight lower edge is decorated with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border.  Each end of the border is pierced with a later large, circular hole, possibly for wiring-purposes.  The skirt-lame is attached to the flange of the main plate at each side by a single, modern round-headed rivet with an octagonal internal washer. Part of the composite three-quarter armour HEN.M.11A-H-1933
title:	backplate (body armour)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17807





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a main plate, weakly shaped to the shoulder-blades, and a skirt of one lame; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped decoration, incised lines, punched hatching and recessed decoration
hammering
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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forming

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1550 - 1550
creation date earliest:	1550
creation date latest:	1550
culture:	16th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 16.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 41.6

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.49

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 38.4