Zischägge, for light cavalry use. Formed of a one-piece skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking screw, a broad neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces each of three downward-overlapping lames. The hemispherical skull is decorated with sixteen radiating flutes of V-shaped sections, each decorated at its crest with file-roping and separated by three evenly-spaced, radiating incised lines. The flutes descend to a recessed border with a vandyked upper edge. The apex of the skull is surmounted by a radially-fluted conical finial riveted through a large, star-shaped washer. The main edges of the obtusely-pointed peak and neck-defence each have file-roped inward turns. The secondary edges of the neck-defence and the cheek-pieces are decorated with a series of filed ogees. The cheek-pieces widen to their mid-points and then narrow again to their rounded lower ends. Their upper lames have elaborately fretted ventilation-holes. The sliding nasal-bar has an elaborately shaped and pierced finial. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.16A-F-1933.
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 42.0 cm
Height: 30.0 cm
Weight: 2.0 kg
Width: 27.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1630
CE
The skull of the helmet is authentic, but all other parts of it are modern restorations.
Border
Decoration
Parts
Hammering
: Formed of a one-piece skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking screw, a broad neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces each of three downward-overlapping lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roping, incised lines, recessed borders and filed ogee decoration
Patinating
Forming
Accession number: HEN.M.16A-1933
Primary reference Number: 17970
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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