IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18411 accession number: HEN.M.67-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Close helmet, for heavy cavalry use. Formed of a skull with a peak and bevor attached to it by common pivots, and a single gorget-plate front and rear. The rounded skull is formed in two halves joined by a turn to the right along a low, roped medial comb that rises to a point at its apex. The point was originally fitted with a finial, now missing. The skull is decorated with radiating flutes of V-shaped section. It is pierced with four ventilation-holes at each side and fitted with a plume-holder at the nape. The pivots that retain the peak and bevor are modern. Each consists of a screw with a rounded cross-cut, quatrefoil head and a square internal nut. The nearly flat peak projects forward to an obtuse point and is decorated with a medial rib. It is shaped at the brow to fit over the flutes of the skull. The medially-ridged bevor is strongly shaped to the point of the chin and has a deep U-shaped face opening. The face-opening is covered by a detachable, falling buffe of two downward-overlapping lames that is sprung over two studs projecting from the sides of the bevor at its lower corner. The upper edge of the buffe is cut with a broad, shallow notch, forming the lower edge of a vision-slit. The upper lame of the buffe is embossed below the vision-slit with a prominent, transverse belt that is cut with vertical ventilation-slots and decorated at its centre with a scallop-shell. The lames of the falling buffee are each supported at the right of the chin by a sprung rectangular stud. The helmet is fitted with a single gorget-plate front and rear, each of which is embossed to simulate two lames. The lower edge of each curves down to an obtuse central point. The gorget-plates are attached to the flanged lower edges of the bevor and skull by modern round-headed rivets with internal washers at each side. The main edges of the helmet are decorated with file-roped inward turns, in most cases accompanied by recessed borders. The borders of the gorget-plates rise to central cusps. The subsidiary edges of the helmet are decorated with single incised lines. title: close helmet 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/18411 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a skull with a peak and medially-ridged bevor attached to it by common pivots, and a single gorget-plate front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with fluted, pierced, file-roped, incised and embossed decoration, with recessed borders hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1620 - 1620 creation date earliest: 1620 creation date latest: 1620 culture: 17th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 30.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 32 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 4.37 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26