Production: Unknown
Burgonet, for light field use, composed of elements of a similar period and fashion. Formed of a skull with an integral peak, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces and a neck-defence of two lames. The rounded one-piece skull rises to a high roped comb showing brazed repairs at its apex. It is fitted at the nape with a later plume-holder of tapering tubular form with integral arms. The front edge of the downturned peak has a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border. Each side of the skull shows traces of raised bands in the 'black and white' fashion that have subsequently been hammered out. Each cheek-piece is pierced with five small circular ventilation-holes in rosette formation and decorated in relief with a six-petalled flowerhead. The lower edges of the cheek-pieces and the neck-defence have plain inward turns. The lowest lame of the neck-defence is decorated near its obtusely-pointed lower end with a pair of transverse incised lines. The skull and cheek-pieces retain a total of eleven round-headed lining-rivets fitted externally with pewter rosette washers.
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 31 cm
Height: 27.9 cm
Weight: 1.46 kg
Width: 21 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1570
The cheek-pieces and neck-defence are associated with the skull. The lowest lame of the neck-defence is a modern restoration made from an old piece of armour.
The helmet is bright with a heavy patination overall.
Border
Cheek-pieces
Decoration Bands
Decoration
Parts
Hammered
: Formed of a skull with an integral peak, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces and a neck-defence of two lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, with pierced ventilation-holes, and recessed, file-roped, incised and raised decoration
Patinating
Formed
Inscription present: green tag numbered 228
Accession number: HEN.M.82-1933
Primary reference Number: 18502
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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