IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17723 accession number: HEN.M.3E-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 7 January 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Backplate with skirt for light field use, decorated with bands in the 'black and white' fashion. Formed of a main plate, a pair of side-plates, and a waist-plate with integral skirt. The main plate is shaped to the shoulder. Its vertical lateral edges bisect the arm-openings. They overlap the side-plates which are in each instance attached to them by modern round-headed rivets with octagonal internal washers. The broad, shallow neck-opening of the main plate is cusped at its centre. Attached within the lower edge of the main plate and the side-plates by five round-headed rivets with octagonal internal washers, is a separate waist-plate which is flanged outward to form a short skirt. The lower edge of the skirt is cusped at its centre and at each side. The arm-openings, the neck-openings and the lower edge of the skirt have file-roped inward turns. Attached at each shoulder by a single round-headed rivet with an octagonal internal washer is a modern leather shoulder-strap. Attached by similar rivets and washers midway along each side-plate is a modern leather strap forming a waist-belt. The broken left strap terminates in a modern double-ended iron buckle, lacking its tongue. The main plate and side-plates are decorated with recessed, bright bands and borders against a blackened ground in the 'black and white' fashion. The border at the neck is of ogee form, and the lateral vertical bands are medially-ridged. The waist-plate and its skirt are decorated with raised, bright bands and recessed bright borders against a blackened ground. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.3A-E-1933 title: backplate (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/17723 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a main plate, a pair of side-plates, and a waist-plate with integral skirt; hammered, shaped, riveted, with banded decoration in 'black and white' fashion hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- forming 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: 20.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 41.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 2.08 dimension: Width units: cm value: 37.0