IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18331 accession number: HEN.M.53-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pot helmet, of great weight, for seige use. Formed in two halves joined medially. The left side overlaps the right side and is secured to it by nineteen externally-flush rivets. The helmet has a rounded crown which is decorated medially with a raised rib enclosed by a pair of narrow grooves, and a broad, integral brim of uniform width which is strongly turned down all around: more markedly at the sides than the front and the rear. The edge of the brim has a plain inward turn bordered by a pair of deeply incised lines. A similar pair of lines encircles the base of the crown, just above the angle of the brim. The border of the brim was formerly occupied by forty-eight round-headed rivets of which one slightly to the right of centre at the front, and another immediately to the left of centre at the rear are now missing. The rivets are alternately fitted with square and with circular internal washers. Those fitted with square washers probably served to retain a lining, while those fitted with circular washers were probably purely decorative. One of the square washers, located slightly to the left of centre at the rear, is missing, while another, located at the centre of the left side, has been replaced by a larger one of octagonal form. Many of the circular washers are lost or severely reduced by corrosion. A circular washer immediately to the left of centre at the rear has been replaced by one of square form. It retains an internal patch that restores a small section of the turn of the brim. The top of each side of the brim is fitted with three horizontally-aligned, round-headed rivets with octagonal internal washers, that formerly served to attach cheek-pieces. The rear two rivets at the left side lack their internal washers. Attached at the nape by a pair of round-headed rivets with circular, internal washers is a plume-holder formed of a tapering tube of U-shaped cross-section with integral arms shaped as fleurons. The upper edge of the tube is shaped as a series of three smaller fleurons. The tube is decorated with a small, circular hole midway down each side, and with a pair of transverse incised lines top and bottom. Each side of the brow of the helmet is deeply struck with the proof-mark of a bullet. title: pot helmet NOTES ----- type: history note value: According to Sir James Mann's annotation of the Potters' valuation of the Henderson Collection of 1933, the helmet came from Combe Abbey. 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/18331 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in two halves joined medially. The left side overlaps the right side and is secured to it by nineteen externally-flush rivets; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with a raised rib, incised lines hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1620 - 1630 creation date earliest: 1620 creation date latest: 1630 culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 38.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.2 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 9.44 dimension: Width units: cm value: 29.8