IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18574 accession number: HEN.M.108-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Breastplate for infantry or light cavalry use by a man of large girth. Of rounded, medially-ridge form, projecting forward over the belly. The shallow neck-opening has a bold, angular, inward turn. The arm-openings are each pierced at their upper and lower ends with rivet-holes for the attachment of missing moveable gussets. The lower edge of the breastplate is pierced near its outer ends with rivet-holes for the attachment of a missing waist-plate. The top of the right shoulder is pierced with a pair of later wiring-holes. The top of the left shoulder may have been similarly pierced, but is now broken away. A prominent threaded stud is riveted just below the centre of the neck. The thread is hand-cut and possibly contemporary. It may have been for bolting on a reinforce or the lower edge of a helmet or face-defence. title: breastplate (body armour) 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/18574 TECHNIQUES ---------- of rounded, medially-ridged form, projecting forward over the belly; hammered, shaped, riveted hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1510 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1510 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 16th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 21.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 32.1 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 2.294 dimension: Width units: cm value: 40.6