IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17963 accession number: HEN.M.15D-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A rear skirt, for use by a cuirassier. The broad, flaring rear skirt is formed of six upward-overlapping lames. The second to sixth lames are each made in two halves with an overlapped and riveted medial join. The first lame, which is deeper than the rest, is angled inwards at its upper edge. The inward-angled section is pierced with a circular hole at its centre, and keyhole-slots to each side, that formerly permitted its attachment to the waist-flange of the backplate. The rear skirt has file-roped inward turns at the main edges, and is decorated with pairs of inicsed lines and filed with nicks, cusps and ogees at the subsidiary edges. Part of the composite three-quarter armour HEN.M.15A-F-1933. title: skirt 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/17963 TECHNIQUES ---------- the broad flaring rear skirt is formed of six upward-overlapping lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with file-roping, incised lines, filed nicks, cusps and ogees hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1620 - 1620 creation date earliest: 1620 creation date latest: 1620 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown