IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18267 accession number: HEN.M.25-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Kettle hat. For field use, probably by the common soldier. Of one-piece construction with a medially-ridged, hemispherical crown, and a deep, down turned, integral brim projecting as a short point at the front. The edge of the brim has a plain, externally-flush, outward turn. The top of the brim is encircled by twelve holes for externally-flush lining-rivets of which four remain, lacking their internal heads. title: kettle hat 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/18267 TECHNIQUES ---------- of one-piece construction with a medially-ridged, hemispherical crown, and a deep, down-turned, integral brim projecting as a short point at the front; hammered, shaped, riveted hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1440 - 1440 creation date earliest: 1440 creation date latest: 1440 culture: 15th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 33.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.2 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.155 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26.4 CITATIONS -------- A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries European Armour Note on Armour worn in Spain from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century La Résurrection du Casque Brise de Charles VI ---