IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18553 accession number: HEN.M.101-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 14 January 2014 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pot helmet, for use by an harquebusier. Formed of a skull, a pivoted peak with a triple-bar face-defence, a neck-guard of two upward-overlapping lames, and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces. The deep, hemispherical skull is of great weight, and rises to a low medial ridge. Its lower edge is pierced with numerous holes for lining-rivets, some of which are occupied by round-headed rivets. The moderately broad, flat, pointed peak is formed in two pieces: a brow-plate with backward-projecting arms, and the peak proper with a flanged rear edge that is riveted within the former. Riveted within the underside of the peak is a face-defence formed of three vertical bars of square section that curve in towards one another at their lower end where they are united in a hammer-welded quadrangular point. The right bar has broken through at its point of union. The break shows evidence of an untidy soldered repair that has itself broken. The obtusely-pointed lower edge of the neck-defence is embossed with a series of simulated round-headed lining-rivets. The cheek-pieces, which are each suspended from the lower edge of the skull by a pair of internal leathers , have convex front and rear edges that converge at their lower ends. They are each pierced at their centres with seven circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation. The front edge of the peak and the lower edge of the neck-defence have plain inward turns. The lateral edges of the cheek-pieces and the neck-defence have plain partial inward turns. title: pot 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/18553 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a low medially-ridged skull, a pivoted peak with a triple-bar face-defence, a neck-guard of two upward-overlapping lames, and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces, pierced with ventilation-holes; hammered, shaped, riveted, with embossed neck-defence hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1900 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 33.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 39.7 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 4.44 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26.6