IDENTIFIERS
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id:	17875
accession number:	HEN.M.13D-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 6 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Backplate, for field use. Formed of a single plate shaped to the shoulder-blades and the hollow of the back.  The broad, shallow neck-opening and the arm-openings have file-roped inward turns accompanied by a recessed border.  The border at the neck widens to its centre.  The backplate is decorated medially with a single incised line that extends from the border at the neck to the waist.  The lower edge of the backplate is flanged outwards to form a short skirt.  The edge of the skirt, which is slightly arched at its centre, has a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border.  Attached by a single, brass-capped, round-headed rivet with a square internal washer at each shoulder is a modern, buff-leather shoulder-strap.  Located just below the rivet is a hole that may originally have served to secure the shoulder-straps.  The hole at the right shoulder is occupied by an externally-flush rivet.  Pierced just above each of the rivets that now retain the shoulder-straps is a pair of later, vertically-aligned wiring-holes.  Attached by a pair of brass-capped, round-headed rivets with square, internal washers at each side of the waist is a modern, buff-leather strap forming a waist-belt.  The left strap terminates in a double-ended, tongued iron buckle, secured by a single, flat-headed rivet.  The buckle has oval loops with simple, filed ornament at their centres.  Pierced at each of the outer ends of the waist are a pair of later lace-holes. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.13A-F-1933.
title:	backplate (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/17875





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a single plate shaped to the shoulder-blades and the hollow of the back; hammered, shaped, riveted, with recessed borders, with file-roped decoration
hammering
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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forming

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1560 - 1570
creation date earliest:	1560
creation date latest:	1570
culture:	16th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 15.0

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 38.2

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.49

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 38.1