IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18661
accession number:	HEN.M.159B-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Poll-plate of a shaffron, for field use. Formed of a single plate strongly curved transversely and slightly curved longitudinally.  It has a straight rear edge and a very slightly convex front edge.  Its front corners are strongly cut out in concave curves to clear the horse's ears.  The rear edge and the cut-outs of the poll-plate have strongly notched inward turns accompanied by recessed borders.  A recessed band, merging into the rear border, decorates the plate medially.  A modern, brass-capped, round-headed rivet with a circular, internal washer located at the centre of the front edge of the plate, retains a small fragment of the leather hinge that at one time connected the poll-plate to its shaffron.  Later holes at either end of the front edge of the poll-plate are now plugged with round-headed rivets of brass.  A pair of lace-holes at the centre of the rear edge of the poll-plate, originally serving to connect it to a crinet, are now also plugged with brass-capped, round-headed rivets.  Similar rivets plug holes at either end of the rear edge of the poll-plate, originally serving to attach the straps that fastened the plate around the horse's neck.  A small, modern wiring-hole is pierced just to the outside of each of these rivets. Together with the poll-plate HEN.M.159A-1933
title:	poll-plate

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/18661





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a single plate strongly curved transversely and slightly curved longitudinally; hammered, shaped, riveted, with recessed borders and notched inward turns
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1550 - 1560
creation date earliest:	1550
creation date latest:	1560
culture:	16th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 16.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 11

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 0.31

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 20