IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18502 accession number: HEN.M.82-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: burgonet 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/18502 TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1570 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1570 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 31 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.9 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.46 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21