IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18267
accession number:	HEN.M.25-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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/18267





TECHNIQUES
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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
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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:	1440 - 1440
creation date earliest:	1440
creation date latest:	1440
culture:	15th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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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
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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
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