IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18573
accession number:	HEN.M.107-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 13 April 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Breastplate with skirt, for infantry or light cavalry use. The breastplate is of rounded, medially-ridged, one-piece construction with bold, angular, outward turns at the neck and arm-openings.  A rivet-hole for the attachment of a shoulder-strap is pierced at the top of each shoulder.  The lower edge of the breastplate is flanged outwards to receive a skirt of four upward overlapping lames, the lowest of which is made in two slightly overlapping halves, the inner ends of which are cut off obliquely to form a small ogival arch over the crotch.  The lames are connected to one another and to the breastplate at their outer ends by modern round-headed rivets and square internal washers.  Similar rivets and washers secure the inner ends of each half of the lowest lame to the lame above it.  The lower corner of each half of the lowest lame is fitted with a modern round-headed rivet serving only as decoration.
title:	breastplate (body armour)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18573





TECHNIQUES
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the breastplate is of rounded, medially-ridged, one-piece construction with bold, angular, outward turns at the neck and arm-openings; hammered, shaped, riveted
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1510 - 1510
creation date earliest:	1510
creation date latest:	1510
culture:	16th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 14.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 52

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 2.708

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 34.4