IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18326
accession number:	HEN.M.50-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 19 April 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pot helmet for use by a pikeman. Formed in two halves joined medially by a turn along a moderately high comb, and by a riveted overlap at the front and rear ends of a broad, downturned integral brim.  The brim has a plain inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing thirty-three round-headed lining-rivets with circular internal washers.  The base of the crown is encircled by twenty-two round-headed lining-rivets.  The crown is decorated around its base and to either side of its comb with pairs of incised lines.  The helmet lacks its cheek-pieces.
title:	pot helmet

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/18326





TECHNIQUES
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formed in two halves joined medially by a turn along a moderately high comb, and by a riveted overlap at the front and rear ends of a broad, downturned integral brim; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with a recessed border and incised lines
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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forming

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1630 - 1630
creation date earliest:	1630
creation date latest:	1630
culture:	17th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 44.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 25.7

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.46

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 28.4