IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18050 accession number: HEN.M.20D-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 8 January 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Backplate with associated skirt. The backplate is formed in one piece with a broad, shallow neck-opening and a short flange at the waist. The arm-openings and the neck-opening have file-roped inward turns bordered by single incised lines. The incised line around the neck-opening projects downwards as a narrow chevron at its centre. The backplate is decorated with three pairs of incised lines that diverge from its waist to the centres of its neck and arm-openings. A modern shoulder-strap is riveted at each shoulder. Modern single-ended tongued iron buckles have been incorrectly riveted beneath each armpit to connect the backplate to a breastplate. A pair of holes are pierced at each side of the waist for the attachment of a missing waist-belt. A later bolt of uncertain function protrudes internally from the centre of the waist-flange. Attached by a modern round-headed screw and square nut at each side of the waist-flange is an associated skirt formed of two plates joined medially by an internal hinge. The skirt is transversely boxed and decorated with a file-roped rib along the angle of the boxing. Each side of the skirt is pierced near its upper edge with a horizontal slot that would originally have served to suspend it from pierced rectangular studs projecting from the waist-flange of the backplate. The upper edge of the skirt is decorated with a single incised. line. A double-ended tongued iron buckle of uncertain function is riveted at each side of the lower edge of the skirt. Pairs of leathering-rivets at the lower edge of the skirt show that it would originally have been extended downwards by one or more lames. Part of the composite armour HEN.M.20A-H-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/18050 TECHNIQUES ---------- the backplate is formed in one piece with a broad, shallow neck-opening and a short flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, hinged, with file-roping and incised line decoration hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1610 - 1610 creation date earliest: 1610 creation date latest: 1610 culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 20.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 40.0 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 3.86 dimension: Width units: cm value: 39.0