IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18060 accession number: HEN.M.20H-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 28 February 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gauntlet for the right hand, of fingered form, for light field use without a vambrace. Formed of a long, flared cuff, five metacarpal plates, a knuckle-plate, a finger-plate, four scaled finger-defences and a hinged, scaled thumb-defence. The cuff is formed of an outer plate and a considerably shorter inner plate. The latter is riveted within the former. The outer plate is medially-ridged and rises at its upper edge to a pronounced central point. The upper edge of the cuff has a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing eleven lining-rivets. A twelfth lining-rivet is lost from the apex of the outer plate. The lower edge of the inner plate has a plain inward turn. Riveted within each side of the lower end of the outer plate is a leather strap to fasten the gauntlet around the inside of the wrist. The shorter front strap, which terminates in a single-ended tongued iron buckle, is broken. The lower edge of the outer plate is overlapped by a series of five medially-ridged, upward-overlapping lames that are decorated with V-shaped nicks at their centres. The lowest metacarpal-plate is overlapped by a knuckle-plate decorated with a file-roped transverse rib of boxed form. The lower edge of the knuckle-plate overlaps a finger-plate which is shaped to the fingers. The cuff, the metacarpal-plates, the knuckle-plate and the finger-plate are connected to one another at their outer ends by round-headed rivets with circular internal washers. Riveted within the finger-plate are four finger-defences formed of between six and seven medially-ridged scales riveted to underlying leather strips. The last two scales of the first finger-defence are rigidly riveted to one another to compensate for the loss of the leathers at that point. Attached by a hinge to the front edge of the gauntlet is a thumb-defence of four medially-ridged, downward-overlapping scales. The hinge is secured to the gauntlet by the rivet that connects the fourth and fifth metacarpal-plates to one another. The upper scale of the main-plate of the thumb defence is of lozenge-shaped form with a notched upper end and a truncated lower end. The thumb-defence is probably restored. Part of the composite armour HEN.M.20A-H-1933. title: gauntlet 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/18060 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a long, medially-ridged, flared cuff with nicks and recessed decoration, five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate with a transverse rib and file-roped decoration, a finger-plate, four scaled, medially-ridged, finger-defences and a hinged, scaled, medially-ridged thumb-defence; hammered, shaped, riveted hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1580 - 1590 creation date earliest: 1580 creation date latest: 1590 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 40.7 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 0.69 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.7