IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18319 accession number: HEN.M.47-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 'Spanish' morion, for infantry use. Formed in one piece with an almond-shaped crown that rises to a short, backward-directed stalk at its apex, and a narrow, slightly downturned integral brim of even width, crudely pierced at its front end with a later wiring-hole. The edge of the brim has a plain inward turn accompanied by a narrow recessed border. The base of the crown is encircled by fourteen holes for lining-rivets of which six are occupied by round-headed rivets with circular internal washers. The latter retain small fragments of a linen lining-band and of the suspension-leathers for the missing cheek-pieces. title: Spanish morion 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/18319 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one piece with an almond-shaped crown that rises to a short, backward-directed stalk at its apex, and a narrow, slightly downturned integral brim of even width, crudely pierced at its front end with a later wiring-hole; hammered, shaped, riveted, with a recessed border hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1590 - 1590 creation date earliest: 1590 creation date latest: 1590 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 26.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.9 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.84 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23.2